Comment on tailscale vs cloudflare tunnel? which is better a homelab
varsock@programming.dev 11 months agodiscovered tailscale from this post and after reading their “how tailscale works” I was hoping to get some clarification from an activer user (you).
CF tunnels setup and outbound-only tunnel from my private network via cloudflared
, I have no ingress holes in my firewall to access my services. cloudflared
does all the proxying. Plus my IP changes monthly I don’t pay for a static one from my ISP. This “outbound-only” connection is resilient to that.
Tailscale is point-to-point (for data plane) connection and only the control plane is “hub and spoke”. This sounds like I need to allow ingress rules on my private network? Is this true or where did I misunderstand?
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I’m probably not the beat person to answer to you about the technical aspect and I’m not sure if I fully understand your question.
However I can tell you that there is no need to change anything at network level for tailscale to work.
I’ve installed and used tailscale on desktops, VM, raspberry, NAS or smartphone on plenty of different network, I’ve also remotely guided people to install tailscale on their machine at home and it always just worked. No issue at all and nothing to change on the network for it to work.
varsock@programming.dev 11 months ago
interesting, I’ll have to read about this some more then. thanks for pointing me in the right direction