Isn’t tailscale a wrapper around WireGuard? With some other hole-punch sprinkles?

odo1242 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Well, WireGuard and WebRTC, but yes.

The real feature of Tailscale is being able to connect to devices without worrying about where they are.

homebrewer 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

You might be confusing it with netbird, which is the 601st implementation of a mesh network that does use both WebRTC and WireGuard.

bradfitz 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's no WebRTC in Tailscale.

Isnt a derp server juat webrtc with minor changes?

	▲	rollcat 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		You don't need the whole of WebRTC for NAT traversal, TURN/STUN will do the job.

odo1242 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Edit: apparently it uses STUN/TURN but not WebRTC

scosman 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nat punch is a big part of it, but so is key management/sync, and configuration management.

nine_k 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

...and DNS, and host provisioning, and SSO, and RBAC, and other stuff you need to sell to enterprises.

kiitos 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

tailscale is a wrapper around wireguard in the same way that dropbox is a wrapper around rsync