[GoLUG] What do you think of tailscale?

[Kevin Chadwick]

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> I want to be able to "phone home" to my desktop Linux machine securely.
> What do y ou all think about using tailscale to do this?

I'm sure it will work well and expect it to be easy to setup.

Personally I recently replaced wireguard with SSH tunnels/reverse tunnels which
can utilise hardware accelerated AES that wireguard cannot. You want atleast one
static IP somewhere even if on a VPS to do this though which I assume tailscale
facilitates for you. Tailscale might be faster across the globe due to some
backbone shenanigans too, though I don't know much about tailscale aside from
having a quick look at it and moving on.

SSH seems to work okay even with CGNAT (UK mobile connections) at both ends but
the connections do need to be kept up with autossh (desktop) or connectbot
(android) or a script. Mobile power usage seems to be better with ssh vs
wireguard, as I expected.

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All the best,
             Kevin Chadwick