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I have it on all my personal and family servers and devices. I use it so that for both myself and my family all our internal stuff (unraid network shares, jelly
by TkTech 4y ago
I have it on all my personal and family servers and devices. I use it so that for both myself and my family all our internal stuff (unraid network shares, jellyfin, homepages, photo backups, etc, etc) "just works" for the less technical members of the family even when they're not at home. It seamlessly detects when the peer is local so it doesn't route out to the internet and back, has an easy ACL to segment things (wife's phone doesn't need access to dd-wrt), and a bunch of other features.
We've been able to do this with existing VPNs for a long, long time, but tailscale is by far the most painless offering I've ever used and I migrated away from OpenVPN completely.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoCan you use it like a VLAN for segmenting devices? I have eero’s and a firewalla but since my eero’s don’t support tagged vlan traffic I can’t segment my devices as much as I’d like to.
- mbesto 4y ago(not an expert here) but my understanding is: sort of. I believe the biggest difference is that VLAN operates at Layer 2 and Wireguard works at Layer 3.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoSo anything already on the same LAN wouldn’t be able to be segmented; if my theory is aligned?
- yakkers 4y ago>It seamlessly detects when the peer is local so it doesn't route out to the internet and back One of my use cases for Tailscale was connectivity between my primary NAS and an off-site NAS I use for backups. Being able to bring my NAS to the same site/network I had set-up the off-site NAS and just have things work over the LAN without reconfiguring anything was a wonderful surprise. (Yes, I’m aware I could save some overhead by reconfiguring but looking at the network traffic monitor I was happy enough with the throughput I got though Tailscale’s LAN routing)