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ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If I host headscale on a VPS, is that as seamless of an experience as Tailscale? And would I miss out on features, like the Tailscale dashboard? How does the experience change for me (an admin type) and my users (non-technical types)?
MangoPenguin@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
There are some community webUIs for Headscale: https://headscale.net/stable/ref/integration/web-ui/
I'm not sure otherwise how different the experience would be.
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I actually did this instead of tailscale first; installing tailscale on a pfsense router was a challenge, iirc i had to find and install the freebsd tailscale pkg from the command line because the plugin doesn’t give the option to connect to a non-tailscale control plane.
After I did that and connected to my headscale server, I could ping pfsense’s local ip, but couldn’t get any traffic out. Turns out I had forgotten the pfsense tailscale plugin automatically sets up outbound rules for you.
That was a rabbit hole I didn’t feeling like falling down, so I turned off headscale and just used tailscale. But it’s there and it does work fine if I ever wanted to go figure out the outbound traffic rules.