Comment on Access homeserver through VPN + route traffic with mullvad?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe give Zerotier a shot. Similar premise as Tailscale, but a simplified NAT and routing implementation.
I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.
It won’t work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.
Two cases.
One to have my server connect to the internet without exposing my traffic.
The second is to not have to chose between be connected to my server or be connected behind a VPN.
Honestly, if if wasn’t because tailscale is performing badly for the last few months, I wouldn’t have problems using and even paying for it.
Tailscale can actually use a Mullvad exit point. I don’t know if you knew that …
Yes, but it’s working awful for me. Even without exit point lose connection for a long time, and there’s a error on the app. I need to restart the connection for it to work again.
Even when it works it’s much slower to connect to my server than VPN.
Even when it works it’s much slower to connect to my server than VPN.
I wonder why.
Wireguard / TS runs faster than VPN’s, and even my family member has had a couple of devices on my Tailnet down at their place for a couple of years now, and they haven’t a clue how it works and fully believe I’m a magician.
Any background on your connection/location/devices etc?
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TS works better for me than ZT. I started with ZT first, and had random access issues between my android phone, my VPS, and all my local devices.
The local devices could all ping each other’s Zerotier IP addresses, but the vps and phone had issues pinging them, but not each other.
Meanwhile, tailscale is working fine, and I’ve even set up subnet routing so I only need it on my phone, my VPS, and my OpnSense system.
With Zerotier, I couldn’t get routing to work at all.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, one or the other works well depending on how your network is deployed. Example: Tailscale gets whacky when dNAT issues are present, but ZT blasts through.
Sounds like OP is having the opposite issue as you.