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[dead] aaadddeeeaaa
I think it's pretty widely accepted that P2P doesn't just mean point-to-point transfers. :/
surki
any idea how NAT traversal is done?
maccman
There's a paper explaining here: http://nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/pub/imc05-tcpnat.pdf

I think that might make a good blog post.

surki
I was asking how they are doing it from browser. But it appears that we need to install a local client :(
maccman
You need to install BrowserPlus - but that's an in-browser installation (without a restart) and is fairly seamless.

During the beta you also need to download/install a BP plugin. This is only because Yahoo haven't signed the plugin - and will install automatically when they have.

est
Yahoo BrowserPlus, works with about 85% of routers
pqs
Yahoo! BroserPlus does not work in GNU/Linux.

It supports:

Windows XP & Vista

    * Internet Explorer 6 & 7 & 8
    * Safari 3.x & 4.x
    * Google Chrome
    * Mozilla Firefox 2 & 3
Mac OSX intel 10.4.11 or newer

    * Safari 3.x & 4.x
    * Mozilla Firefox 2 & 3
maccman
Yes, it's a shame. Best thing to do is ask Yahoo to support it.