how to make direct connections in this repo about awl HOT 8 CLOSED

https://github.com/zfunnily/hole-punching-go-libp2p

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I'm sorry, I still don't have a good tutorial how to setup all this.

Basically, if you want to test on desktop, you need to download awl-tray binary, run it as root (or administrator), open web interface (by clicking on the system tray icon --> Open Web UI. Or just go to http://localhost.awl:8639/). Do this on both your devices. Then you need to add new peer (see button in the interface), peer ID you can get by clicking "Show ID". Later you need to accept invitation on the second peer's admin UI and after all this you can interconnect between your devices. IP and domain address you can see in the interface. Awl works on IP level, so you can ping your devices or access its TCP/UDP ports.
For testing purposes you can also connect to awl-tester with peer ID 12D3KooWJMUjt9b5T1umzgzjLv5yG2ViuuF4qjmN65tsRXZGS1p8. It will auto-accept your invitation. It has available port 80 and 8989

Feel free to ask here if you have any questions.

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Direct connect is peer to peer and disconnect server, through public relay is too slow.
you can try this repo https://github.com/openp2p-cn/openp2p, it has high probability to use direct connect.

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Awl tries to create direct connections the same way as openp2p. In current release we use rather old libraries, after #52 it should be much better, stay tuned

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@neophack fyi it should be much better with latest release

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Test some networks, quic can work normally, but some networks are still not as good as openp2p

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I am quite satisfied now

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Thanks for testing!

@neophack could you please provide more information about networks in which awl can't do direct connections? I thought it should be the same

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