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philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Trying to find a way to connect to my home server as well as my VPN at the same time. Doesn’t seem like tailscale can. I’ve started looking at pangolin, has anyone had any luck with this issue?
Thank you
VPN to home, then route outbound traffic over the other VPN.
Tailscale will let you use mullvad vpn as exit nodes
This is sadly the only way to do it on Android. It’s not supported by Headscale and it only supports Mullvad.
It’s a shame you can’t force an exit node to be used by the whole tailnet
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago Yes. Run a tailscale exit node which connects to the internet via said VPN. Connect to tailscale on android and select the exit node
Now you are routing android to tailscale and exiting via the vpn.
Not sure about pangolin on this front
I do this more or less, while the VPS itself doesn’t route over a VPN I have traffic forwarded between Tailscale and a commercial VPN.
It’s actually much more complicated and involved then that involving four double hop VPN tunnels, two that stay 100% in my country then two that bounce around other countries routed over the first two. This way my traffic exits the country without it appearing that way.
philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago This seems like the way forward for me.
Just so I understand properly. I set up one of my home machines as an exit node and all my traffic from my android goes through that home machine?
How do I connect my VPN to tailscale on the home machine? Its not mulvad unfortunately
that exit node will essentially need to work as a router, connected to both the tailnet and whatever other VPN peer you are working with. you could also use something like a gluetun container as I think it works with a wide variety of popular VPN providers.
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago Yep. I had it set up in a docker compose setup with tailscale and gluetun. There is actually decent documentation for this on gluetun docs i think.
Then your tailscale container exists via gluetun which connects to your VPN.
I’d say you install the VPN on the home machine, then when you turn on tailscale on your phone, the traffic should be Phone->home machine (exit node)->VPN
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago Maybe run the public VPN at home with NAT enabled, and use it as the default gateway in the private VPN. Never done it but I think I’ve seen some guides on that concept.
idk how it works on grapheneos. but on normal android i could use work profile for this. and singbox inside the work profile to open a local socks5 proxy, then connecting to it from outside the work profile.
I use my own “solution”: github.com/stratself/tswg
Depends on what threat you’re protecting against IMHO.
If you’re trying to be anonymous, connecting to your home IP first is a dead giveaway to who you are. Both your home ISP and whichever ISP you’re connnected to will know.
Only easy way to maintain some anonymity right now would be to use Tailscale’s Mullvad integration……Tailscale to connect your servers, Mullvad for anonymize/country changing.
Other way might be to ONLY use Tailscale/Mullvad, and set up an alternative auth front door to your own network. Complicated and doesn’t work as nicely tho.
This.
And graphene actually makes things very easy for you: every profile can have regular and private version of any given app.
The private side is essentially a different user with its own set of vpn options but you can easily navigate in between provate and normal apps.
Im using the regular profile for staying connected to home. All traffic is routed to home and then to proton.
Everything in the private section goes through regular proton vpn(the app on the phone) so any traffic to the web also has a different exit node to my “home” traffic (albeit a proton one).
I then have a separate profile called incognito with only proton pass, vpn and onion browser on it.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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What issue are you having?
I use tailscale just fine on my gos.
dieTasse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago You can use tailscale + gluetun docker containers to use your favorite commercial vpn as an exit node on the same machine. Or you need to update iptables of you don’t use docker and have wireguard out. Or if you have vpn out on your router, and tailscale on the home network, you just use it as exit node.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago Might sound like a dumb question, but have you opened the port on your router?
My ASUS router handles my WireGuard setup, I can forward my home VPN server through one of Protons VPN servers essentially creating a multi-hop setup.
I’ve got pangolin running on a VPS. It was dead simple.
If only pangolin supported 0.0.0.0 routing. It’s been requested for months but instead of doing that… They’ve been courting paid enterprise usage.
What are you trying to accomplish with that?
I was reading this yesterday
tailscale.com/docs/reference/faq/other-vpns
I probably won’t do it myself, but maybe it works for you