TailScale anyone got hands on feedback

Ok - a bit more meat on this bone.

You will need to setup an account on Tailscale.com to allow you to manage your tailnet. All devices you want in this tailnet can be seen and managed using this login. Once the tailnet is up you then need to setup a device within the LAN you want to access (main node) and enable / approve it in the tailnet. You can then set this node up to route your LAN address ranges (free tier gives you 1 subnet i think) and you can also decide if you want this node to also be an exit node. Once this is done you can then setup additional nodes into your tailnet and these would use the 'main node' to access your LAN. When you are away from your LAN you can then connect back by switching on the tailscale vpn on your phone / laptop etc. You can also congure always-on vpn and give it rules, e.g. always switch ona nd connect the vpn when i am not on my home WLAN

You can have more than 1 main node - tailscale will load balance and if 1 goes down the other can be used (its seamless)

You can also setup a version of tailscale to run on your local hardware using headscale i think - i havent tried this.
 
Same also using tailscale. Moved from twingate and can't say I have any regrets.

Setup some subnet routers so I have 2 way, local access between office and home. Phone also setup to auto connect when outside the wifi zones.
 
What are you trying to accomplish ?
Maybe the use case would rather lean towards Cloudflare tunnels (also a free, excellent option)
 
Opted for Cloudflare Zero Trust over TailScale but I can’t remember exactly why.
 
Anthro said:
What are you trying to accomplish ?
Maybe the use case would rather lean towards Cloudflare tunnels (also a free, excellent option)
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Just stumbled across tailscale and hoping it will work for my step up.
I have some knowledge but will definitely have to do a deep dive into the video and documentation.

What I am hoping to do, and from what I've seen so far should be achievable.
I have three locations, 1 in the UK and 2 in South Africa.
The UK site has a Synology the two SA sites have Apple TVs.

For the SA sites I'm hoping for them to still have access to the UK Synology networked mapped drives (machines all run good sync and use the nas a common file location).
Also using it as an exit node for access to UK internet, iPlayer etc
The UK site have access to an SA Exit node for the same reason.

I did look at running zero trust, but the Synology wouldn't run docker.

The thing that appeals to me about the Tailscale route is the simplest I see so far, and the wide number of devices it runs on.
 
@cavedog dont you have something similar going, accomplished in some way with Cloudflare involved ? (correct me if I am off my rocker here)
 
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