It’s a 10 minute read when it should probably be a 2 minute read, likely due to LLMs fluffing it up (I got that vibe from skimming it). But what do you all think, is there anything in here that would compel you to switch from your current VPN solution to this?
There’s nothing I’d like to do more than let the US internet-monopolizing company handle all my vpn traffic /s But without being snarky, for homelabbing purposes just use wireguard directly, it’s fun and not that hard to handle. Automate peer configurations using Ansible or some other automation tool if it gets hard to manage manually.
Yeah, you can’t just use wireguard directly on a home network depending on provider (CGNAT) and you can’t just switch providers as most providers are in a non-compete with other providers. So, Cloudflare Mesh or Tailscale is the best option for those.
I’m trying to set up the same at some point. How do you solve the changing IP address problem?
I tried, but I don’t understand how to bypass a cgnat. With Tailscale it just works. Also, I tried Netbird, it’s very similar, and it works well too. I’d love to simplify this, but I have no knowledge at the moment. Would love someone pointing into the right direction.
Finally a reasonable person around here.
The only thing I like about this is the pressure it might put on tailscale to make their offering better.
This could have been you, Mozilla.
sniff
I wanted so much to believe in you
Is it still too late technically? I dont want to quit on Mozilla
TBH I still donate $5/mo to Mozilla. But only because someone has to fund the upstream development of the browser I actually use (and which arguably is the browser Mozilla was supposed to be)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAT Network Address Translation VPN Virtual Private Network
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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I’ve been using Cloudflare’s Tunnel/Zero Trust for a while now and I find it does the job just jammy. I’m not sure I need Mesh, but I will at least familiarize myself with it.
