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Browsers connecting through a VPN don't seem to be able to connect

Open haydenmc opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

haydenmc avatar Oct 06 '20 22:10 haydenmc

I am able to connect through WireGuard, I suspect this depends on the network and exact VPN tech.

Likely in some cases when the VPN encapsulates video packets they become larger than the MTU of some router in the path and packet loss happens.

Lowering the packet size is the only solution and doing that requires either a change in ftl-sdk or transcoding.

danstiner avatar Apr 18 '21 19:04 danstiner

From what I've seen, this is due to some VPNs actually killing the ICE exchange to avoid "leaking" the user's IP address

haydenmc avatar Apr 19 '21 00:04 haydenmc

Ah yeah, totally some do that, I think often through a browser extension? Nothing we can do about that right except ask them to disable it or fallback to HLS.

danstiner avatar Apr 19 '21 03:04 danstiner

Yeah, HLS might be the answer here unless TURN helps out...? I vaguely remember that being a possibility. 😅

haydenmc avatar Apr 19 '21 06:04 haydenmc