Tailscale has released a counter-intuitive tool called Tailcat, simply put: Tailscale without Tailscale. No account registration, no VPN installation, no port opening, no root access required, and it doesn’t modify your routes or DNS. Just two machines, send a short token, and they connect directly with end-to-end WireGuard encryption. If a direct connection works, it uses it; if not, it automatically falls back to DERP relays without any delay.

What can you do once connected? Here’s a list:

• Transfer files between two computers
• Expose local ports
• SSH directly into the machine
• Use as a SOCKS5 proxy
• Set up as an exit node
• Transfer files right from the browser

Written in Go, running entirely in userspace, and officially open-sourced. Think of it like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane.
https://tailscale.github.io/tailcat/

tailcat

Source: https://tailscale.github.io/tailcat/

This is an experimental demo of tailcat in the browser. Unlike the normal CLI and non-JS library versions, all of its traffic is relayed through DERP servers; browsers can’t make tailcat’s direct peer-to-peer connections without WebRTC support (issue #4).

Loading WebAssembly…

Receive

Create a listener, share its address out of band, then the other side sends with this page or the CLI:
tailcat < file

Reuse a persistent address (stored in this browser)
Share this address:

Send

Paste the receiver’s address. The receiver can be this page on another machine, or the CLI:
tailcat > file

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