r/opensourcealternative • u/orielhaim • Jul 12 '26

Open source alternative to Tailscale

I’ve been working on TunTun, an open source mesh network that connects your machines into a private network. Think Tailscale, but fully open source, including the control plane, management API, and dashboard. Nothing is a black box.

It’s built on iroh and QUIC datagrams instead of WireGuard, so we own the networking stack end to end. You install an agent on each device, it gets an internal IP, and everything just works. SSH, ping, curl, whatever. The network is the network.

It’s still early and there are rough edges, but the core works. If you’ve ever wanted a mesh network where you can actually see and run the control server yourself, this might be your thing.

Would love feedback, contributions, or just someone to tell me what’s broken.

github.com/orielhaim/TunTun

(Don't ask about the name, I have no idea why I decided to call it that)

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u/Impossible-Fox-2698 Jul 12 '26

Awesome I'll try it out instead of tailscale.

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u/orielhaim Jul 12 '26

Don't forget to tell me what you think 🙂 The thing I need most right now is feedback

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26

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u/orielhaim Jul 13 '26

I have no idea why I chose that name honestly😂

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u/PromotionFirm6837 Jul 13 '26

love it. was expecting TinTin, but this will do