Comment by smashah
3 years ago
Wouldn't it be more "efficient" networking if I could sometimes just use the mullvad app instead of tailscale > mullvad?
Either way it would be good to at least have the option to use an existing account. Maybe tailscale is taking a cut since mullvad dropped recurring sub support natively.
See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/2880 for some background.
The root problem this all came from is that users can't really run two VPN clients at a time. It rarely works due to them fighting over the same resources in various OSes. So we need to either add Mullvad support to Tailscale's client or Tailscale support to Mullvad's client. The former is tons easier.
> Wouldn't it be more "efficient" networking if I could sometimes just use the mullvad app instead of tailscale > mullvad?
no, why do you think that's the case? presumably the mullvad client does the exact same thing as the tailscale client will do - configure a wireguard tunnel.
edit: it will be interesting to see how much effort Tailscale put into preventing dns/route leaks vs the mullvad client