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Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
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I reached out to Russ Cox(a former coworker from the Go team with a lot of Plan 9 history) and told him I thought it’d be fun (& funny) to finish up in time for April 1st. On most Unix platforms you use TUN(or wintun on Windows) which give you a virtual network device on which you set addresses and assign routes, handling the incoming and outgoing packets in userspace. And working with a totally busted tailscaled crashing and deadlocking in weird ways always seems to lead to finding existing problems that affect all other platforms or assumptions that aren’t true in general.
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