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Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers

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239 points gasull | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source
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b_fiive ◴[25 Jun 25 19:03 UTC] No.44380803[source]▶
hey I work on this! AMA!
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xeonmc ◴[25 Jun 25 19:13 UTC] No.44380893[source]▶
Can this be a made to work as an adapter to play older, raw UDP multiplayer games with random strangers? E.g. telling someone in Twitch chat “bro 1v1 me in CS1.6, here’s my Iroh ticket:”, they put it into their “InstaFrag NetDriver” Windows Client and you both launch CS1.6 and just start playing in an ad-hoc p2p lobby.

With Tailscale this use case is very cumbersome as you’d need to add them to your tailnet and configure access controls to make it an ephemeral connection.

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binary132 ◴[25 Jun 25 20:42 UTC] No.44381630[source]▶
This is very much like my usecase too, except that I need to be able to use it via FFI since my engine is not Rust.
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1. dignifiedquire ◴[25 Jun 25 21:23 UTC] No.44381958[source]▶
we do have https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-c-ffi which is lowlevel but directly usable from any c like language
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2. binary132 ◴[26 Jun 25 20:54 UTC] No.44391252[source]▶
Oh nice, thanks for that. Do you think I should hold my breath for a UDP transport or just use it to negotiate direct socket connections?