WireGuardMeshes
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WireGuardMeshes
- Just dropped Webmesh v0.4.1 with some fun new features
- A text repo to feature-track all the WireGuard mesh software
- Tailscale changes its Android app to support the open source Headscale server
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Headscale-UI is now in beta!
The URL is: https://github.com/HarvsG/WireGuardMeshes
- Port Forward Security & Alternatives
- NetBird - Open Source P2P overlay network with WireGuard, WebRTC, SSO, blackjack, and Zero Trust
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tailscale is magic. That is all.
Is anyone using Netmaker to manage multiple networks? We have been using ztncui to manage multiple Zerotier networks, occasionally we have trouble with locked down routers, so we are looking at alernatives. For the uninitiated, here are a few comparison charts: https://github.com/HarvsG/WireGuardMeshes https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker https://github.com/cedrickchee/awesome-wireguard
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Is automatic peer connection (use server as coordinator) possible?
You're looking to automatically set up a Wireguard mesh. Luck would have it that there's a great overview of solutions for this. I personally use innernet, but something like Tailscale or Netmaker may be more user-friendly.
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Our User Mode WireGuard Year
How do they manage their mesh?
I've just been doing research on setting up my own wireguard mesh (currently using a spoke/hub setup with pi-hole/pivpn).
I found https://github.com/HarvsG/WireGuardMeshes today which is awesome, but I'm curious what fly.io / other readers here may be using.
- Find the best WireGuard Auto-Mesh project! (Help wanted)
tinc
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Would we still create Nebula today?
But both Nebula and tinc max out at around 1 Gbit/s on my Hetzner servers, thus not using most of my 10 Gbit/s connectivity. This is because they cap out at 100% of 1 CPU. The Nebula issue about that was closed due to "inactivity" [2].
I also observed that when Nebula operates at 100% CPU usage, you get lots of package loss. This causes software that expects reasonable timings on ~0.2ms links to fail (e.g. consensus software like Consul, or Ceph). This in turn led to flakiness / intermittent outages.
I had to resolve to move the big data pushing softwares like Ceph outside of the VPN to get 10 Gbit/s speed for those, and to avoid downtimes due to the packet loss.
Such software like Ceph has its own encryption, but I don't trust it, and that mistrust was recently proven right again [3].
So I'm currently looking to move the Ceph into WireGuard.
Summary: For small-data use, tinc and Nebula are fine, but if you start to push real data, they break.
[1]: https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/issues/218
[2]: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/637
[3]: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
- Which overlay network?
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Tailscale/golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets
From a purely networking perspective, there are far better solutions than tailscale.
Have a look at full mesh VPNs like:
https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc
https://github.com/costela/wesher
These build actual mesh networks where every node is equal and can serve as a router for other nodes to resolve difficult network topologies (where some nodes might not be connected to the internet, but do have connections to other nodes with an internet connection).
Sending data through multiple routers is also possible. They also deal with nodes disappearing and change routes accordingly.
tailscale (and similar solutions like netbird) still use a bunch of "proxy servers" for that. You can set them up on intermediate nodes, but that have to be dealt with manually (and you get two kinds of nodes).
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Tunneling to Synology NAS without opening ports.
Two other options are Tinc https://tinc-vpn.org/ or Nebula https://www.defined.net/nebula/
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Port Forward Security & Alternatives
And there is Tinc; the OG overlay network. I don't have experience with this. Seemed a bit of a pain to setup. https://tinc-vpn.org
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WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
For what its worth I have used the open source Tinc VPN [1] for mesh multihop routing for ages. It is nowhere near as fast as Wireguard but I could envision Tinc incorporating support for Wireguard if the author were so inclined. Like you mentioned Tinc does not mesh with other VPN's AFAIK.
[1] - https://tinc-vpn.org/
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You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
This is actually very simple in concept and is just as simple or even simpler to do with tinc (https://tinc-vpn.org).
Since I can use tinc in bridge mode, I can run tinc on the upstream server and on a local machine which then provides access to several physical machines without running extra software on each of those machines, which is particularly useful for machines that are resource limited, like my Macintosh LC II and LC III+:
http://elsie.zia.io/
It'd be nice if it weren't so difficult to get public addresses.
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Tinc Is Not Catan
I clicked expected some broken analogy between https://tinc-vpn.org/ and the Catan board game, but instead it is a Catan implementation. Fair enough.
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Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software
will generate a real-time network graph using the Graphviz DOT language. It's a cool feature that I find quite useful.
[0] https://tinc-vpn.org/
What are some alternatives?
slirp4netns - User-mode networking for unprivileged network namespaces
OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
wireguard-go-docker - Wireguard docker image
SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.
wormhole-william-mobile - End-to-end encrypted file transfer for Android and iOS. A Magic Wormhole Mobile client.
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
pivpn - The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi