Melson's Blog · Mar 6, 2026
Peer-to-Peer Networking: Build a VPN Tunnel with Wintun on Windows - Part 2
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This is a continuation of my previous post . The goal of this part is to understand in a simple way how Tailscale works behind the scenes on Windows using a L3 adapter called Wintun . 
 How Tailscale Peer-to-Peer Works 
 Majority of Tailscale’s code is open source, including DERP server which acts as a relay for peers when direct connection fails. 
 Since Tailscale’s…
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