[Sugar-devel] p2p stream tubes

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:13, Guillaume Desmottes
<guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I released telepathy-gabble 0.7.18 yesterday which implements a
> long-awaited feature: peer to peer connections in stream tubes!
>
> Basically this means that stream tubes will use a TCP connection (using
> SOCKS 5) to transfer their data instead of sending them through the
> server with IBB (base64 encoding). If the socks5 connection can't be
> established (because peers are on different NAT's for example) then
> Gabble will fallback to IBB.
> This should drastically improve stream tube performances and reduce
> server's band-with consumption.
>
> As all of this is pure Telepathy implementation details, activities
> using stream tubes (as Read) doesn't have to change a single line of
> their code to benefit of this improvement! Clients just have to upgrade
> their Gabble.
>
> Of course, there are probably bugs in the current implementation so it
> would be good if Sugar users could start to test it ASAP.
> We should observe the following results in these scenario:
>
> - old Gabble <-> new Gabble: continue to use IBB as before.
> - new Gabble <-> new Gabble on the same network: use sock5 connections
> (the transfer of the shared document in Read should be really faster)
> - new Gabble <-> new Gabble on different networks: try to use sock5 and
> the fallback to IBB.
>
> This is the first step in our "improve tubes connectivity" plan and lead
> the way to new improvements as using a socks5 relay to transfer data if
> direct connection is impossible. The ultimate goal is to use jingle to
> benefit real NAT penetration (as in audio/video calls).
>
> Please feel free to test this new version and report any problem you
> could have.

I will set aside some time for testing this, but will have to be after
the feature freeze, so about one week from now.

Congrats for the good work,

Tomeu