Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by thunderbong » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

Tailscale vs. Narrowlink
narrowlink.com

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by mikae1 » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

Don't forget Nebula[1].

[1] https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source...

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by bootsmann » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

This article is classic SEO fluff right? The Q&A style answering exactly the type of questions that people comparing the two would write into google search.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by mightybyte » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

Nebula is another option along these lines. https://nebula.defined.net/docs/ I've been using it for the better part of a year and am very happy with it. It is able to make point-to-point network connections in many situations, avoiding the out-and-back cost of VPN ingress/egress points that are far away from source and dest.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by __jem » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

> However, tailscale focuses on access different devices to each other, while Narrowlink focuses on access to the services trough on the agent as a proxy.

You can easily do the same thing with Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets/.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by booi » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

bootsmann wrote: post #3

This article is classic SEO fluff right? The Q&A style answering exactly the type of questions that people comparing the two would write into google search.

how dare they try to answer questions people would type into google

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by infinityio » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

For people for which the SaaSiness of Tailscale would be the main deciding factor, it is important to note that this article completely fails to mention Headscale, a BSD-licenced tailscale-compatible coordination server under active development

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by xrd » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:07 PM UTC

I'm using head scale. Is this a drop in replacement? Intrigued.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by bootsmann » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

booi wrote: post #6

bootsmann wrote: post #3

This article is classic SEO fluff right? The Q&A style answering exactly the type of questions that people comparing the two would write into google search.

how dare they try to answer questions people would type into google

Ah I’m not negative about this here, its just notable and makes the article overly verbose.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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Post by decremental » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 4:10 PM UTC

bootsmann wrote: post #3

This article is classic SEO fluff right? The Q&A style answering exactly the type of questions that people comparing the two would write into google search.

That's why the competitor's name is first in the title.