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Tailscale is slloowwww and I'm not a big fan of someone else controlling my network. Yeah, tailnet lock at all that, I know, but still...
by FL410 1y ago
Tailscale is slloowwww and I'm not a big fan of someone else controlling my network. Yeah, tailnet lock at all that, I know, but still...
- moduspol 1y agoYou can use headscale [1] (open source) as the mothership, and all the published clients (AFAIK) support pointing them to an alternative mothership. I set it up, and it worked, but regular Tailscale works so well out-of-the-box that I just used that instead of maintaining headscale. [1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
- LeoPanthera 1y agoTailscale in most cases establishes direct links between the nodes so it can't be any slower than the speed of the network you're already using.
- The_Fox 1y agoAs someone who previously led development of a commercial VPN system, I assure you, there are about 100 ways for a VPN to go slower than the network hosting it. Unfortunately. Two cases I can think of are MTU misconfigurations and constrained CPU on either endpoint, where the node CPU can handle non-VPN network demands but can't handle the VPN demand.
- FL410 1y agoAnd when it doesn't (which is often the case behind NAT), you're at the mercy of their relays which are not particularly fast.