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The subtle magic of tsnet

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Re: The subtle magic of tsnet

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Yeah, they definitely need to spend 5 minutes to remove the spurious slides that don't actually provide any information.

This took me more than 5 minutes, but do you mean something like this? https://tailscale-dev-git-xe-no-fun-allowed-tailscale.vercel...

Perfect, thank you!

Re: The subtle magic of tsnet

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You can configure ACLs. By default devices that aren’t tagged with an ACL tag are available to other devices authenticated by the same user. If you tag a device, you have to write explicit ACLs to permit access from other users/devices.

How does this solve the problem of a malicious process inside the whitelisted device.

That would of course be beyond the scope of the network layer itself.

Re: The subtle magic of tsnet

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I see a lot of mention of folks of using tailscale for their friend group to access stuff.. but the free plan seems to max out at 3 users, with an exception for foss projects. What am I missing? How do I use tailscale for my 10ish friends and me to play minecraft without paying hundreds a year?

I’ve been playing with Netbird lately and it’s been working well. They have a free plan for up to 20 nodes, and a self hosted option if you want to eject from their cloud offering.

Netbird looks like a great option. Thanks!

Yeah having all my users have to be on github or sign up for a third service is a non-starter, but plain wireguard is just a bit much. Netbird looks like a good path.

Re: The subtle magic of tsnet

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post #13

I see a lot of mention of folks of using tailscale for their friend group to access stuff.. but the free plan seems to max out at 3 users, with an exception for foss projects. What am I missing? How do I use tailscale for my 10ish friends and me to play minecraft without paying hundreds a year?

Tailscalar/talk author here. Set up a GitHub org. That has a 25 user limit for free. That's what my husband and I use (our tailnet predates the new free plan details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v3/ ).

I do not really see this. On a new github organization tailscale account i only see three users only. Maybe you were grandfathered that plan...?
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