diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
index 5bdf704..83243ee 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ func network(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, on map[string]bool,
 					"Re-place it — `overlay place %s --hub --endpoint <host>:%d …` — and push again; "+
 					"nothing was composed", p.Name, t.Interface, wrong, p.Name, t.Port)
 			}
-			n.TakesOver = &overlay.TakeOver{Interface: t.Interface, Unit: t.Unit, Config: t.Config}
+			n.TakesOver = &overlay.TakeOver{Interface: t.Interface, Unit: t.Unit, Config: t.Config, Port: t.Port}
 		}
 		if p.Hub {
 			for _, c := range carried {
diff --git a/internal/overlay/declaration.go b/internal/overlay/declaration.go
index 65b4e30..8950b69 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/declaration.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/declaration.go
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ func config(node Node, peers []Peer, keyPath string) string {
 		if port := portOf(node.Endpoint); port != "" {
 			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "ListenPort = %s\n", port)
 		}
+	} else if node.TakesOver != nil && node.TakesOver.Port != 0 {
+		// Not dialable from the hub, but a LAN peer dials this node on the tunnel it took over,
+		// so the mesh's interface must listen on that same port (novox/hq: a taken tunnel brings
+		// its port). Without this the takeover guard refuses overlay-up, and re-placing the node
+		// with an endpoint — the guard's suggested remedy — breaks a NAT'd node's path.
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "ListenPort = %d\n", node.TakesOver.Port)
 	}
 	// The private key is set from a file the node wrote, so it never appears here and never
 	// travelled. Everything else in this file came from the mesh; this one line is the node's.
diff --git a/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go b/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
index 8a941ff..d763816 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
@@ -260,3 +260,29 @@ func TestTakingOverAFoundTunnelIsSaidOnTheInterfacesService(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestATakenTunnelBringsItsListenPortEvenWhenNotDialable(t *testing.T) {
+	// A home node behind NAT (no Endpoint, so not Reachable) that took over a tunnel must still
+	// listen on that tunnel's port, because its LAN peers dial it there (novox/hq: a taken tunnel
+	// brings its port). Without this the takeover guard refuses overlay-up.
+	config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{
+		Name: "shanks", Key: "SPOKE", Address: "10.10.0.3",
+		TakesOver: &TakeOver{Interface: "wg0", Unit: "wg-quick@wg0", Port: 51820},
+	}, nil)
+
+	if !strings.Contains(config, "ListenPort = 51820") {
+		t.Fatalf("a taken tunnel's port must be the mesh interface's ListenPort:\n%s", config)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(config, "Endpoint =") {
+		t.Error("a node that only listens for LAN peers must not advertise an endpoint")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestANodeWithNoTunnelAndNoEndpointStillListensOnNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	// The guard against over-emitting: a plain spoke with neither an endpoint nor a taken tunnel
+	// writes no ListenPort — it purely dials out.
+	config, _ := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "K", Address: "10.10.0.9"}, nil)
+	if strings.Contains(config, "ListenPort") {
+		t.Fatalf("a dial-only node needs no ListenPort:\n%s", config)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/overlay/graph.go b/internal/overlay/graph.go
index c4f9c28..3a11bce 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/graph.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/graph.go
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ type TakeOver struct {
 	Interface string
 	Unit      string
 	Config    string
+	// Port is the port the found tunnel listened on. The mesh's interface must listen on it too,
+	// even on a node that is not dialable from the hub: a home node's LAN peers dial it there
+	// (novox/hq: a taken tunnel brings its port). Listening is "a peer dials me here"; it is not
+	// "the hub can dial me", which is Reachable — the two were conflated.
+	Port int
 }
 
 // HostPrefix is one address as a route: /32 for IPv4, /128 for IPv6.