Tailscale is pretty useful
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Tailscale is pretty useful
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Re: Tailscale is pretty useful
#2I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real.
Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
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#3The features here seem to be fairly standard with most the WireGuard based VPNs these days. For example, I use Nord for my use-case which is very similar to the author's. This allows me to rsync my home directory between my laptop, tablet, phone's Termux env, and desktop (all running Linux) to maintain configuration parity and file locality regardless of where I turn these devices on, so long as they have internet.
Does Tailscale have features that set it apart now that other VPNs have gotten the private mesh thing down pretty well?
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#4I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real. Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
Try netbird, it's the same idea but with support for using kernel-mode WireGuard when one of the peers is able to connect to another one directly without doing NAT tricks (so either both peers are on the same subnet, or at least one of them has a public IP).
Re: Tailscale is pretty useful
#5I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real. Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
In my experience Samba is just a slow protocol due to its chattiness.
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#6I was once in South Africa and needed to look up my prescriptions in the CVS app. I had lost my pills and needed to show a local pharmacist what I needed. CVS geoblocked me. Luckily I had a TailScale exit node running at home, which solved the problem.
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#8I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real. Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
In my experience Samba is just a slow protocol due to its chattiness.
Samba is not a protocol. It's an implementation of dozens of services and a dozen protocols, including SMB (Server Message Block).
Re: Tailscale is pretty useful
#9I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real. Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
WG is quite fast. Can’t be the limiter. Like this guy I’ve driven 1 G easily on 7950 and Epyc 9654. I think I did 10 G but I can’t recall because at some point I just moved everything local and did 40 G. But I’m sure it would work on CPU on reasonable machine
https://old.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/112mo4v/is_there_...
Re: Tailscale is pretty useful
#10I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real. Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
They have a DERP server I guess. Your traffic might be going through one of those.