Installer tuntox avec Homebrew, Nix, pacman

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• Dépôt

Commandes et alias

• tuntox

Historique du projet

The project appeared publicly in December 2014 in the official GitHub repository. Its README framed it as early work in progress and described a single binary that can run in either server or client mode, with the server publishing a Tox ID and the client forwarding local ports to services behind that Tox identity.

The early releases developed the core tunneling workflow and added shared-secret authentication by version 0.0.4. Later official releases continued into 2021, while the README and FAQ kept the focus on practical NAT traversal, SSH-style local forwarding, and operational cautions around Tox connectivity and security.

Historique d'adoption

tuntox stayed niche but was packaged beyond Homebrew. The supplied package metadata lists Homebrew, Nix, and Arch pacman entries, and the official FAQ lists additional distribution packaging such as Arch, Homebrew, NixOS, Pentoo, Void, and work-in-progress Debian packaging.

Modes d'utilisation

A typical use is to run `tuntox` on a remote laptop, home machine, or Raspberry Pi behind NAT, save its Tox identity under `/etc/tuntox/` or a `-C` directory, and connect from another machine with an SSH-like `-L` forwarding rule.

Package-manager users mostly encounter it as a tiny tunnel binary: install it, run the server without root, then use local port forwarding or SSH `ProxyCommand` mode to reach a private service over the Tox overlay.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package nerds, tuntox is interesting less as a mainstream remote-access product and more as a packaged example of the Tox ecosystem being used as infrastructure: a peer-to-peer overlay repurposed for TCP forwarding, NAT traversal, and occasional Tor/proxy-aware experiments.

Chronologie

• 2014: GitHub repository created and 0.0.1 initial release published.
• 2015: 0.0.4 release introduced the shared-secret security mode documented in the README.
• 2018: FAQ documented relay-versus-UDP behavior and distro packaging status.
• 2021: 0.0.10 release published.

Related projects

• Tox
• c-toxcore
• uTox
• OpenSSH local port forwarding

Sources

• GitHub API for gjedeer/tuntox: repository created 2014-12-11 and releases 0.0.1 through 0.0.10.
• https://github.com/gjedeer/tuntox README: TCP forwarding over Tox, NAT-traversal use case, server/client mode, `/etc/tuntox/`, `-C`, `-L`, ProxyCommand, and security notes.
• https://github.com/gjedeer/tuntox/blob/master/FAQ.md FAQ: Tox relay behavior, proxy/Tor support, Docker notes, and distribution package list.
• source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew, Nix, and pacman package-manager presence.