turn VS ice

Compare turn vs ice and see what are their differences.

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turn ice
3 2
1,691 392
2.9% 3.6%
7.2 8.5
17 days ago 5 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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turn

Posts with mentions or reviews of turn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-16.
  • Using WebTransport
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2022
    > dedicated signalling

    For my small projects I run my HTTP + WebRTC in the same server. My signaling is one POST. Maybe I am missing the complexity, but I don't feel any additional pain compared to running any network service?

    > STUN Karate

    Mind explaining more? I use https://github.com/pion/turn and run my STUN server embedded in my HTTP server. I do do anything but point my `PeerConnection` at `my-service.com`

  • Show HN: Weron – A Peer-to-Peer VPN Based on WebRTC Written in Go
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2022
    There is a very neat implementation of a TURN from Pion

    https://github.com/pion/turn

  • How do I deploy a TURN server for WebRTC apps on heroku?
    2 projects | /r/Heroku | 23 Sep 2021
    I've tried node-turn in a node.js server, tried to execute pion/turn binaries directly so far but with no luck. `node-turn` works if I run locally and test it with my public ip address but the same doesn't work on heroku.

ice

Posts with mentions or reviews of ice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.
  • NetBird raises €1.1M – Open-Source P2P WireGuard-based overlay network
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2023
    Heads up to folks from Pion https://github.com/pion/ice.

    Sixth, NetBird supports MFA and popular OpenID-compliant Identity Providers (IdP) like MS Azure, Okta, Google, Auth0, Keycloak, Zitadel, Authentik, etc. Available in the self-hosted version as well.

    Seventh, NetBird is a European company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Hence this might interest local European companies looking for local networking platforms.

    Eighth, NetBird joined the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security incubator - the #1 cybersecurity research university. The program gives us direct access to cutting-edge research that we will use to optimize the technology.

  • If you ever struggled setting up Wireguard with peers behind NAT and without a public ip
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 May 2021
    Basically yes. The difference would be that we are trying to use more open source technologies and libraries instead of implementing our own. For example pion/ice from the WebRTC project and coturn for STUN and TURN. Both ice and coturn are used to go around NAT. We lack a peer management system that will allow to add peers dynamically. Tailscale and Zero tier have it but not open sourced. We plan to implement such a system and open source it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing turn and ice you can also consider the following projects:

livekit-server - Scalable, high-performance WebRTC SFU. SDKs in JavaScript, React, React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, Unity/C#, Go, Ruby and Node. [Moved to: https://github.com/livekit/livekit]

coturn - coturn TURN server project

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

bot_box - Universal remote control for robots. Works via the internet.

go-stun - A go implementation of the STUN client (RFC 3489 and RFC 5389)

stun - Fast RFC 5389 STUN implementation in go

node-turn - Node-turn is a STUN/TURN server for Node.JS

weron - Overlay networks based on WebRTC.

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.