Circuit Relay Integration

[vyzo]

Type: Feature

Severity: Medium

Description:

Circuit Relay provides us with the means to indirectly connect peers who cannot directly connect to each other, either because of NAT or because of protocol incompatibilities (eg: js interop).
The relay specification has been implemented in Go as a transport in go-libp2p-circuit.

Integration approach:

Per discussion with @whyrusleeping:
For initial deployment, the relay functionality should be purely manual: peers would have to manually connect to relays and explicitly open connections to each other by directly using /p2p-circuit addresses with ipfs swarm connect.
The relay transport should be enabled by default, with hop relay functionality an opt-in feature.
No relay addresses should be announced by the host through the DHT, until we better understand the heuristics for automatically using them

[whyrusleeping]

@vyzo should we close this? or use it as a place to track information about further relay integrations?

[vyzo]

Up to you. The basic issue has been resolved, but we do need a place to track further integration information, so we can keep it open.

[Winterhuman]

@whyrusleeping @vyzo Should this be closed?

[vyzo]

once project flare is fully deployed, yes