Re: [PLUG] Tailscale talk? (was Outgoing VPN for Entire Network)

[brent saner via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 15:13 Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Changing the subject just a bit here. I've heard a lot of buzz about
Tailscale but I don't really understand what it is. Is it sufficiently
open source to be a topic for an upcoming PLUG meeting?

Quick point of contention, despite a large (ab)use of the misnomer (including, egregiously, by the projects themselves), Wireguard - the protocol Tailscale is built on, and thus Tailscale itself - is not actually a VPN, it's a point-to-point tunnel. It's closer to e.g. a link than a LAN. There are multiple projects that attempt to make wg behave more *like* a VPN (like Tailscale) but they ultimately are workarounds and abstractions rather than an actual VPN implementation.

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