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Nat-traversal projects on GitHub

Establishing peer-to-peer connections through firewalls and NATs.

As of , the most-starred Nat-traversal projects on GitHub are headscale (44.7K stars), netbird (30K stars) and pangolin (23.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Nat-traversal repositories with 160.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was headscale, with +36 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+36

headscale

juanfont/headscale · ★ 44.7K

Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server, letting you run your own private Tailscale-compatible network instead of paying for Tailscale's hosted service.

+28

netbird

netbirdio/netbird · ★ 30K

NetBird is an open-source Zero Trust networking platform: it builds a configuration-free peer-to-peer WireGuard overlay network with centralized access control, so you can create secure private networks without open ports, complex firewall rules or VPN gateways.

+26

bbhost

droogie/bbhost · ★ 611

bbhost is a translation layer that runs Bloodborne's own unmodified 1.09 PS4 executable on Windows and Linux, reimplementing the PS4's system libraries and translating its GPU work (GCN shaders and draw calls) to Vulkan, aiming for a definitive PC version with any resolution, 60 fps, keyboard/mouse, mods and online play.

+20

EasyTier

EasyTier/EasyTier · ★ 14.1K

EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN built with Rust and Tokio. It connects your devices into one secure virtual network over the internet without requiring any central server.

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10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · juanfont/headscale

    headscale

    Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server, letting you run your own private Tailscale-compatible network instead of paying for Tailscale's hosted service.

    44.7K
  2. #2 · netbirdio/netbird

    netbird

    NetBird is an open-source Zero Trust networking platform: it builds a configuration-free peer-to-peer WireGuard overlay network with centralized access control, so you can create secure private networks without open ports, complex firewall rules or VPN gateways.

    30K
  3. #3 · fosrl/pangolin

    pangolin

    Pangolin is an open-source SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform built on WireGuard that unifies a zero-trust VPN, reverse proxy, privileged access management, and an identity-aware AI gateway under one identity and policy model.

    23.1K
  1. 4

    nebula

    18.4Kslackhq/nebula · Go

    Nebula is an overlay networking tool that lets you connect computers anywhere in the world into a secure mesh network, scaling from a handful of machines to tens of thousands.

  2. 5

    coturn

    14.5Kcoturn/coturn · C

    coturn is a free, open-source implementation of a TURN and STUN server, used as a VoIP media relay and NAT traversal gateway, commonly deployed alongside WebRTC applications.

  3. 6

    rathole

    14.3Krathole-org/rathole · Rust

    Rathole is a secure, stable, high-performance reverse proxy written in Rust that exposes a service running on a device behind NAT to the Internet through a server with a public IP, similar to frp and ngrok.

  4. 7

    EasyTier

    14.1KEasyTier/EasyTier · Rust

    EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN built with Rust and Tokio. It connects your devices into one secure virtual network over the internet without requiring any central server.

  5. 8

    bbhost

    611droogie/bbhost · C++

    bbhost is a translation layer that runs Bloodborne's own unmodified 1.09 PS4 executable on Windows and Linux, reimplementing the PS4's system libraries and translating its GPU work (GCN shaders and draw calls) to Vulkan, aiming for a definitive PC version with any resolution, 60 fps, keyboard/mouse, mods and online play.

  6. 9

    MeshLAN

    230zhaoxuya520/MeshLAN · Go

    MeshLAN is a self-hosted virtual LAN built on SlackHQ Nebula that connects Windows devices across different networks and NATs, preferring direct P2P links and falling back to relays, with service sharing, name-based access via MeshDNS, and optional AI automation.

  7. 10

    bitbang

    184richlegrand/bitbang

    BitBang turns any machine into a URL: run it on the device, open the URL in any browser, and you are connected to that machine peer-to-peer with end-to-end encryption — no account, no port forwarding, nothing to install on the connecting side.

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