roadeagle VS tailscale

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Tailscale is a super cool networking tool, and Iximiuz Labs Playgrounds are a great place to run a Remote Homelab, so I thought I'd smash em together and make a super cool tech sandwich!

Tailscale: mesh VPN, zero config. Just install and forget. Perfect for personal/private access.

Optional: Use Tailscale to access your lab from any device securely

For accessing my server from outside and anywhere, I use Tailscale. This service creates a VPN between all your desired devices. It offers much better security and less risk than using port forwarding or exposing ports/services to the whole internet. Runs fantastic — and even for free!

How does this compare to Tailscale?

Rust vs Go is one difference. What else?

Tailscale: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

> For an example of how invasive this is for the average user, this person discovered Tailscale trying to collect ~18000 data points per week about their network usage based on the number of blocked DNS requests for `log.tailscale.com`: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/15326

18000 data points per week seems IMHO pretty low (only 1.7 requests per minute for a whole network? Unlikely, even my Android phone does way more that 1.7 requests per minute just to ad networks, nevermind everything else on the network summed), it's probably way more.

18000 data points is also a lie, that's a different issue - the issue of UDP DNS sucking in general so your average application/OS keeps reissuing requests if they think the UDP packet got dropped.

But I only saw the usability of Go as an alternative to Python for scripting/CLI application development, and obviously for backend development. Especially when it comes to gRPC (but that's a story for another time). I never looked at Go as an option for the development of FFI Flutter plugins, until sometime last year, I got acquainted with Tailscale. Tailscale has built its products around Go, including mobile applications. For reference, I'd strongly encourage you to check the source code of their Android client and the Swift library inside the main libtailscale repository. So, somebody did it... A successful company uses Golang for its clients.

Tailscale has made all of their client source code available for anyone to view so if you want to confirm that you’re not sending unencrypted data or keys through their servers you’re more than free to do so.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

I think there is some merit to setting up wireguard (e.g. you want more devices than what Tailscale offers for free, or their servers become unreliable for some reason)

But people who push the “scarey boogeyman will look at your data” with Tailscale are either technically illiterate or overly-paranoid.