Today we announce that we no longer support port forwarding. New port forwards will no longer be supported, and existing ports will be removed 2023-07-01.
Mullvad will removed port forwarding from their app.
Question: if port forwarding is removed, wouldn’t I2P connectivity be degraded in exactly the same way as using a torrent client? As in you can build outgoing tunnels to peers who do have a public ip/accessible port, but cannot receive incoming tunnels, same as in the table by @blank_dvth below? Making connections slower or impossible? Or is it better because of the multiple hops in a tunnel, such that two peers behind NAT can still reach each other as long as they can both find an intermediate relay node with a public ip?
Question: if port forwarding is removed, wouldn’t I2P connectivity be degraded in exactly the same way as using a torrent client? As in you can build outgoing tunnels to peers who do have a public ip/accessible port, but cannot receive incoming tunnels, same as in the table by @blank_dvth below? Making connections slower or impossible? Or is it better because of the multiple hops in a tunnel, such that two peers behind NAT can still reach each other as long as they can both find an intermediate relay node with a public ip?