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netbird
- JIT WireGuard
- Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN (But neither are any of the others)
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A word of caution about Tailscale
Netmaker (https://www.netmaker.io/) Netbird (https://netbird.io/)
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NetBird is a configuration-free, peer-to-peer private network combined with a centralized access control system. Utilizing a WireGuard-based overlay network, it ensures encrypted connections between machines without the need for complex configurations such as port openings, intricate firewall rules, or VPN gateways. Prioritizes security with intuitive management of granular access policies for secure remote access, applicable universally across any infrastructure. petr205 explains, "Their SaaS version is free up to 100 machines and 5 users, but the self-hosted version is exactly the same and has very low requirements."
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Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks
It is always great to see another solution using Wireguard, which is a great technology for modern private connectivity.
I built https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird, which can be self-hosted and offers an option to run Wireguard without managing firewalls for P2P connectivity.
- Would we still create Nebula today?
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Netbirdio/netbird: Connect devices into a single private WireGuard mesh network
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1081#issuecommen...
It seems that they plan on open sourcing the app.
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NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN
I'd add to that list Netbird, which is the one I ended up using after trying all of the above.
Nebula
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JIT WireGuard
(I am a Nebula maintainer.) We recently merged support for gVisor-based services, although it's very new, and I don't know of much experimentation that's been done with it yet: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/pull/965
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
Nebula, originally from Slack[0].
Wireguard rightly gets a lot of attention, but Nebula is a really simple and easy to deploy mesh network that is often overlooked.
It does lack a management GUI and that stuff is very much DIY.
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Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN (But neither are any of the others)
Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under MIT license
nebula seemed like a very interesting choice, when we were looking for a mesh vpn, but the lack of ipv6 support led to it being removed from consideration very quickly
so i have been checking https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/6 every time im reminded nebula exists, for the last few years, without success
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Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
That's not at all confusing with Slack's Nebula. https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
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A word of caution about Tailscale
Headscale looks nice. Another option that I don't see mentioned much is Slack's Nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula).
Sounds like a bunch of your pain points are just related to needing an online CA or ICA. But, looking through the Nebula docs I don't know that it supports things like CRL addresses where you could host the CRL, or OCSP responders. Someone got support for an OCSP responder but never submitted a PR with completed code: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/72
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Nebula is a scalable, cross-platform overlay networking tool focused on performance, simplicity, and security. This portable tool is equally adapted for linking a small number of computers or scaling to connect tens of thousands. It integrates encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling into a powerful, cohesive connectivity solution. Thanks for the recommendation go to jmeador42.
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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...
What are some alternatives?
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
tinc - a VPN daemon
yggdrasil-go - An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network
OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server