I’m wondering if I’m starting to outgrow Tailscale… my wife keeps having networking issues on Android due to Tailscale, the Nvidia Shield kills the Tailscale app randomly, and my parents’ TV doesn’t have a Tailscale app…

I feel like the time is approaching to publicly expose some of my services to the internet…

Any other tips?

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayOP
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    8 days ago

    site-to-site VPN configurations between routers at each location … the router itself handle routing of specific traffic over the VPN connection, instead of needing each device to connect to the VPN individually.

    Interesting. This could help with my home network and my parent’s, but I also need to handle cases where I don’t control the network. I have clients that are phones. My family would expect that the services keep working even if they’re in a different city on cellular or at a friend’s house.

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      8 days ago

      Site-to-site and individual client setups are not mutually exclusive. They can co-exist.

      I have Wireguard on both my phone and laptop - and tailscale should work the same way - which I only activate when I’m away from my home network.

      You could even set it up where each “roaming” device is always connected to their “home” network by VPN, which uses site-to-site to further route the traffic where it needs to go.