[xeonmc]

Can this be a made to work as an adapter to play older, raw UDP multiplayer games with random strangers? E.g. telling someone in Twitch chat “bro 1v1 me in CS1.6, here’s my Iroh ticket:”, they put it into their “InstaFrag NetDriver” Windows Client and you both launch CS1.6 and just start playing in an ad-hoc p2p lobby.

With Tailscale this use case is very cumbersome as you’d need to add them to your tailnet and configure access controls to make it an ephemeral connection.

[b_fiive]

There's no reason this _can't_ be built. The thing that's missing is simulating a raw UDP socket.

We could adapt the pattern from dumbpipe wrapping a TCP listner: https://github.com/n0-computer/dumbpipe?tab=readme-ov-file#t... which is exactly the "here join this ticket" you're describing

[binary132]

This is very much like my usecase too, except that I need to be able to use it via FFI since my engine is not Rust.

[dignifiedquire]

we do have https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-c-ffi which is lowlevel but directly usable from any c like language

[binary132]

Oh nice, thanks for that. Do you think I should hold my breath for a UDP transport or just use it to negotiate direct socket connections?