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by UnlockedSecrets 1544 days ago
You are running tailscale on an SFP???
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Yes that is what they are, But what SFP actually has the ability to be programmable to the degree that is needed to support Wireguard??
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside

This SFP has an embedded ARM processor running Linux. It’s pretty meta, but one could imagine a wireguard control network for these. The article even describes using wireguard-go on the embedded side.

Yeah I'm a bit crazy, as someone else pointed out, it's a https://plumspace.com/ smart SFP.