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> I feel like a lot of hype around Tailscale is because it vastly simplifies VPNs and their associated networking Tailscale is based on Wire Guard, isn’t it? N
by xienze 2y ago
> I feel like a lot of hype around Tailscale is because it vastly simplifies VPNs and their associated networking
Tailscale is based on Wire Guard, isn’t it? Now there’s a piece of software that truly made VPNs simple. I have a tunnel back into my LAN by way of an EC2 instance and all it took was two super simple config files on each machine.
- nine_k 2y agoWireguard vastly simplifies the transport level, and attains high performance because it runs in the kernel. Tailscale simplifies: authentication (including OIDC), authorization (via ACLs), DNS, NAT piercing. All of that is not obvious or easy for someone without deeper expertise.