I just use wireguard that’s built in to opnsense. Am I missing out on something ?
No, but some people are stuck behind CG-NAT and can’t port forward to the outside world for wireguard. Things like Cloudflared, Tailscale and ZeroTier get past that.
It’s of course possible to use wireguard to a VPS and tunnel into that, but that’s a bit more technical to set up.
ISP have put me behind CG NAT few weeks ago, but I just called them and they turned it off in 10 min. Hard part was to find out whats the issue since I had no clue about CG NAT. WG ftw
Yeah, same here. Played with tailscale, headscale and some other wireguard mesh tools. But I prefer the plain and simple wireguard setup. My network is not that big that I need yet an other tool for managing it.
Yeah that’s what I do as well. I try to avoid tying my services to a company that can change their licensing terms. I’m trying to be self hosted after all!
Tailscale “just works”. Since I’ve set it up I’ve never really thought about using anything else. Adding new devices is seamless.
I’ve been using Tailscale because I like the business model they’ve been pushing. They’ve also followed through with that, expanding what the free tier of their service offers instead of restricting it more.
Although possibly biased, Tailscale has a write up comparing the two and the conclusion is that both are good at accomplishing their goals. If you have a technology or business preference, it could mostly come down to that. https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/
Also a big fan of Tailscale. Works well out of the box and they have great documentation.
I’ll also throw out its nice to see many of their articles comparing services don’t end with a simple “We’re better!” but a “pick whats best for your use case.” Makes them look a lot better imo.
I can’t believe I’m hearing so much support for non-selfhosted stuff. What’s next, you’re going to promote Plex?
I thought this was the selfhosted community
You can self-host Tailscale and Zerotier.
Also Plex is a staple of the self hosted community (though I prefer Jellyfin.) I’m wondering if they’ve confused self hosting and FOSS somehow
Plex requires a third party account, therefore not selfhosted.
The identity service is not self hosted then. But the rest of Plex literally is. You can self host Gitea and use a third party service like openID for authentication too if you want to. Just because you self host some things doesn’t mean you HAVE to self host EVERYTHING
Tailscale comes in my Synology packages and just works. Haven’t looked at zerotier yet.
I first tried zerotier but ran into some weird issue…don’t recall what it is now…and then tried tailscale and was up and running in like 15 mins. But I see others have had the absolutely opposite experience from mine where tailscale wouldn’t work and zerotier would. I think they’re both great products.
I’ve been using secret option 3- netbird. Kernel wireguard support, completely self hostable, and very active development.
You can use all functions from tailscale in free tier and its simple and quick.
