I just use wireguard that’s built in to opnsense. Am I missing out on something ?
No, but some people are stuck behind CG-NAT and can’t port forward to the outside world for wireguard. Things like Cloudflared, Tailscale and ZeroTier get past that.
It’s of course possible to use wireguard to a VPS and tunnel into that, but that’s a bit more technical to set up.
I’ve been using Tailscale because I like the business model they’ve been pushing. They’ve also followed through with that, expanding what the free tier of their service offers instead of restricting it more.
Although possibly biased, Tailscale has a write up comparing the two and the conclusion is that both are good at accomplishing their goals. If you have a technology or business preference, it could mostly come down to that. https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/
Also a big fan of Tailscale. Works well out of the box and they have great documentation.
I’ll also throw out its nice to see many of their articles comparing services don’t end with a simple “We’re better!” but a “pick whats best for your use case.” Makes them look a lot better imo.
I can’t believe I’m hearing so much support for non-selfhosted stuff. What’s next, you’re going to promote Plex?
I thought this was the selfhosted community
Also Plex is a staple of the self hosted community (though I prefer Jellyfin.) I’m wondering if they’ve confused self hosting and FOSS somehow
I’ve been using secret option 3- netbird. Kernel wireguard support, completely self hostable, and very active development.
Looks interesting. What do you do for mobile devices that need to connect to your network?
Tailscale was the first one I tried and it has worked great for me. If I run into issues maybe I’ll look at switching.
Tailscale “just works”. Since I’ve set it up I’ve never really thought about using anything else. Adding new devices is seamless.
