doc(config): improve DisableNatPortMap documentation
Steven Allen committed
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@@ -362,7 +362,12 @@ bandwidth metrics. Disabling bandwidth metrics can lead to a slight performance
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improvement, as well as a reduction in memory usage.
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- `DisableNatPortMap`
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-Disable NAT discovery.
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+Disable automatic NAT port forwarding.
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+When not disabled (default), go-ipfs asks NAT devices (e.g., routers), to open
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+up an external port and forward it to the port go-ipfs is running on. When this
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+works (i.e., when your router supports NAT port forwarding), it makes the local
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+go-ipfs node accessible from the public internet.
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- `DisableRelay`
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Disables the p2p-circuit relay transport.