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Universal Plug and Play Support As An Alternative To Port Forwarding

Open AltriusRS opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is related to the requirement of port-forwarding / requiring access to a router that allows it.

Describe the solution you'd like Whilst not a perfect solution, one way to help minimize the friction of port-forwarding would be to try and implement UPnP.

Describe alternatives you've considered proxy servers are also a solution, allowing the server to advertise its IP address as a proxy server, which would then tunnel the data back and forth, but this adds latency and failure points.

Additional context I see lots of issues with port-forwarding in the Discord server, and wanted to put into consideration one possible suggestion which might help reduce those questions by making the process slightly more transparent.

AltriusRS avatar Feb 07 '24 09:02 AltriusRS