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Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#41

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No Android support though, instant dealbreaker for me. I use tailscale and termux to SSH into my devices, or to access my HomeAssistant from anywhere EDIT: my bad, they have an Android client

What doesn't support Android? Nebula has an Android client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.defined.mo...

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Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#42

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No Android support though, instant dealbreaker for me. I use tailscale and termux to SSH into my devices, or to access my HomeAssistant from anywhere EDIT: my bad, they have an Android client

What doesn't support Android? Nebula has an Android client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.defined.mo...

You're right! I didn't realize article posted by parent was 3 years old (it only mentions iOS client being in development). Their website mentions Android client!

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#43

> 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…

> significant part of the value proposition of Tailscale is their very well designed web UI which makes managing their Wireguard based networks very user friendly. I think this is an opinion. I don't use the tags/rules, and I literally only use their website to complete the oauth flow to auth a new client. Headscale is a perfectly functional replacement of Tailscale for me.

I don't mean to downplay the value of Headscale, but only to make the point that it's quite a different beast to the Tailscale SaaS experience.

For the record I think Headscale is an impressive project.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#44

> 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…

Reverse nit, there is a UI for headscale:

https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui

Granted, that's also not tailscale.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

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post #44

> 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…

Reverse nit, there is a UI for headscale: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui Granted, that's also not tailscale.

> Granted, that's also not tailscale.

I take your point, but they're technically not Headscale either!

Yes there are a few third-party UIs for Headscale but now we are 3 times removed from Tailscale :)

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#46

> 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…

Perhaps narrowlink doesn't want to draw attention to this: https://github.com/narrowlink/narrowlink/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#47
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What does the sentence you quoted even mean? This reads like a rough first draft that needs to be clarified. I don't get it at all.

> access to the services trough on the agent as a proxy I assume the services trough is somewhat of a poor man's service bus

or misspelled "through" but that wouldn't make much sense either.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#48
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Don't forget Nebula[1]. [1] https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source...

Nebula is fantastic, absolute love it. We use it in production. Cert management can be a bit of a pain on a large scale but there's an excellent Terraform provider [0] that can help. Coupled with the Terraform ansible provider and a little bit of scripting you can automate anything related to cert provisioning and renewal.

[0] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/TelkomIndonesia/nebu...

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#49

> 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…

Perhaps narrowlink doesn't want to draw attention to this: https://github.com/narrowlink/narrowlink/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

What’s to draw attention to there? MPL and AGPL are both Open Source licenses.

Re: Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

#50

> 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…

Perhaps narrowlink doesn't want to draw attention to this: https://github.com/narrowlink/narrowlink/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

That they're licensed under two different open source licenses?
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