From @JustinDrake on Thu Nov 24 2016 10:29:42 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Let’s assume we have two IPFS peers A
and B
without a common transport. For example, A
is a go-libp2p
node which supports TCP and WS, whereas B
is a js-libp2p
node which supports WebRTC. Can A
and B
communicate with each other?
One obvious idea is to use a relay node C
which supports both TCP and WebRTC, and can relay traffic as follows:
TCP WebRTC
A <---------> C <---------> B
Do such relay nodes exist? How would A
and B
communicate with each other today?
Copied from original issue: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/202