[QUERY] Steam Advice on IP Sharing : Steam

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

"Never. Never share your IP with any player. Always relay peer-to-peer traffic.
Always. Always allow the app to share your IP with any player. If the other player also shares their IP address, a direct connection may be established. If not, it will be relayed.
Default. This will not share your IP address, unless it appears necessary to avoid excessive ping times.
Friends Only. Share your IP only with users in your Friends List."


Can someone explain how this works?

The first 2 sentences contradict each other.

[Lithurge]

From reading the whole page and assuming you're referring to these:

Never. Never share your IP with any player. Always relay peer-to-peer traffic.

I assume that any peer to peer traffic is routed via relay as per that section of text.

[[N]ebsun]

1 never - never shares IP, always uses a relay
2 always - allow IP sharing if the other party allows it (else it will be relayed)
3 default - do not share unless necessary to avoid lag

[Kargor]

Origineel geplaatst door <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

"Never. Never share your IP with any player. Always relay peer-to-peer traffic.
Always. Always allow the app to share your IP with any player. If the other player also shares their IP address, a direct connection may be established. If not, it will be relayed.
"
...
The first 2 sentences contradict each other.

I'm assuming this is the explanation for the various settings of a particular option.

So, of course they contradict each other: you select one, or the other. If they were both the same, they wouldn't have that setting...

[Lithurge]

Origineel geplaatst door Kargor:

I'm assuming this is the explanation for the various settings of a particular option.

So, of course they contradict each other: you select one, or the other. If they were both the same, they wouldn't have that setting...

It is. For some reason they're just quoting/reading specific bits of text and ignoring the rest of the page that explains it.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Origineel geplaatst door Lithurge:

Origineel geplaatst door Kargor:

I'm assuming this is the explanation for the various settings of a particular option.

So, of course they contradict each other: you select one, or the other. If they were both the same, they wouldn't have that setting...

It is. For some reason they're just quoting/reading specific bits of text and ignoring the rest of the page that explains it.

Could you kindly explain it?