Could iroh be used as a server-client connection for Minecraft?

[mainrs]

I was wondering if this is something that iroh makes sense for. Right now one has to rent a server that is publicly accessible, open up ports on their own router or use network-creating software like Hamachi.

Could iroh be used to connect server and client running on different devices within different networks without having to go through port opening and other stuff?

Minecraft uses TCP and depends on ordering and reliability features from it. I don't see any more efficient way of realizing this besides tunneling the tcpstream itself through iroh
Not sure if I can tunnel iroh through TC directly instead.

[Frando]

I don't know much about minecraft networking but you can likely use dumbpipe in TCP mode for this I think, it is a CLI to open an iroh tunnel to proxy TCP streams through.

[matheus23]

Yes. I would love to see that. I've talked to @doinkythederp in the past about making an iroh version of https://github.com/lewisfm/lan-extender-fabric which would be pretty neat.

[matheus23]

There's also https://github.com/rustonbsd/iroh-lan as a fairly straightforward alternative to hamachi that uses iroh.