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tailscale-mpe-rust
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punnerud / tailscale-mpe-rust

tailscale-mpe-rust

Pure-Rust Tailscale client for the ESP32-S3. Already have a WiFi stack? This adds a full Tailscale node — ts2021 control plane, WireGuard, NAT traversal, DERP — for ~2 kB static RAM. No tailscaled, no Go runtime. Portable no_std core.

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13GitHub stars
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What it is

Pure-Rust Tailscale client for the ESP32-S3. Already have a WiFi stack? This adds a full Tailscale node — ts2021 control plane, WireGuard, NAT traversal, DERP — for ~2 kB static RAM. No tailscaled, no Go runtime. Portable no_std core.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-07-29 09:02:21 UTC to 2026-09-02 09:37:19 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 272026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 102026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 31

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Jul 272026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 32026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 102026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 172026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 242026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 312026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The demo use WASM/browser when available, but also supports running only on ESP32. Figured out I could offload and give the users a better experience when available. Thanks for noticing the Tailscale demo. Created a Tailscale-Rust client that supports NAT-traversial, encryption etc. and manage to run on ESP32 (together with the local LLM). Just the Tailscale part can be found here: https://github.com/punnerud/tailscale-mpe-rust
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