Comment on Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year agoThe bulk of the traffic between two Tailscale nodes is direct between the nodes. They mainly use the Tailscale servers to help them find each other (NAT hole punching) and establish a connection.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You’re kidding! I thought all the traffic went through tailscale. So it’s basically just establishing the connection, then I’m only limited by upload/download speed of the NAS and the client?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Usually yes! There will be some minor overhead from both nodes keeping in touch with the Tailscale command server but mostly they talk to each other.
Read this though to see if there’s a case where direct connection might not be possible: tailscale.com/kb/1181/firewalls/
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Man, that’s great news. Though I may have some extra set up to do because I tried once with a decent internet connection and couldn’t get plex working over tailscale.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Plex has issues with VPNs unfortunately. It wants you to go through them whenever you connect to your server, and this means it needs to know where your server IP/domain is. But if you have situations where the IP/domain changes, like a VPN, it can get confused.
It’s one of the reasons that made me give up Plex back in the day. (Holding your accounts hostage was the other one.)