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FL410 | 5 months 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...

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LeoPanthera|5 months ago

Tailscale 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.

FL410|5 months ago

And when it doesn't (which is often the case behind NAT), you're at the mercy of their relays which are not particularly fast.

The_Fox|5 months ago

As 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.

moduspol|5 months ago

You 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