Remove Concepts Remove Personal Computer Remove Terrain
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GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Normally, talking directly between two personal computers is made difficult by personal network’s firewalls and by a process called network address traversal. A peer needs to communicate its network terrain, e.g. its public IP address, whether it’s behind a NAT, and its private IP address. Telephone switchboard, 1975.