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What’s to draw attention to there? MPL and AGPL are both Open Source licenses.
One's not usable in any corporate context, especially one that's so low level in the network stack. The doc post is a content marketing post (in this case, for SEO hacking specifically) disguised as a technical comparison, so they clearly have monetisation in mind. In other words, disingenuous advertising.
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Headscale dev here! What issues did you face? :)
It was last year, so it's not in recent memory, but most of the problem was around instability. We ran into some frequent issues where we would begin troubleshooting, assuming it was something on the application end, only to find out that the issue was happening in the network. We eventually figured out that the Headscale network was randomly dropping in and out. I'm sure with a lot more time we could have identified…
But indeed we are not meant to replace the full frictionless experience of Tailscale SaaS.
Don't forget Nebula[1]. [1] https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source...
Used Nebula to build a cross-cloud Nomad cluster, very underrated and does 99% of what you'd want from Tailscale.
I actually use https://defined.net for a managed Nebula experience and it makes everything super easy to get going and the team is super helpful with the few issues that I have run into. The free tier is super generous with up to 100 hosts for free and you don't need a credit card to get started. I highly recommend checking it out.
Seems Narrowlink is tunneling at socket level; while Tailscale is tunneling at network / IP level. I think they are comparing apple to orange here.
And we all know apples and oranges are incompatible in every single way. Even their physical dimensions or prices can't be meaningfully compared! Seriously though: both of those products aim to provide secure tunnelling/network connectivity. They do it differently, which leads to different trade-offs including, among other things, at which level the OS network stack is intercepted. All of those things can be meaningf…
I think their respective "Get Started" buttons show it best: Tailscale tries to get you connected to your team and to download the client as fast and easy as possible (= it's a product for everyone in the company), while Narrowlink throws you to a lengthy explainer page that no non-technical user will bother with.
I started reading through the Narrowlink URL, but the frequency of typos was frustrating enough the I came right back to HackerNews to read the comments and synopsis of what the kerfuffle is about. Thanks for the pointer to headscale - will take a look ;)
The typos are there so you know it wasn't generated with ChatGPT.
Netmaker[1] is another player in the space [1] https://www.netmaker.io
Wow, every time I check in on it it feels like its 10x the product it was the 4-6 months prior. Impressive!
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What’s to draw attention to there? MPL and AGPL are both Open Source licenses.
> For companies or organizations whose policies are not compatible with the AGPL-3.0 license, we offer a separate business license. To inquire about the business license or discuss licensing options, please contact us at opensource@narrowlink.com.
No central point of failure, I think.
> Narrowlink and Tailscale are two open source solutions with different architectures that enable secure remote access and connectivity across networks. A nitpick, but ironically I think they're being generous to Tailscale there. Tailscale isn't really "open source" - or at least not without heavy qualification. I'm not an open source zealot by any means but that line just seems a little misleading. The clients are p…
The client is completely open source on open source operating systems. The repository you linked to is 100% of the client for Linux, and there's another repository for Android.
As a bonus you can run the open source client on closed source OSs, i.e. macOS, WSL2.
We never open sourced our coordination server because Headscale beat us to it.