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Comment by user3939382

11 hours ago

I don’t trust or want tools from giant for profit corporations because there’s always some bullshit, and usually by the time you figure it out you’re out time or money. Never used Tailscale and this is a perfect example of my policy working. Notice the no response, they know what they’re doing and they don’t care.

Layer 2 VPN is where it’s at anyway. I want to be on my LAN not managing one device or app at a time, I never got the wireguard hype.

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sauercrowd  9 hours ago

> Layer 2 VPN is where it’s at anyway. I want to be on my LAN not managing one device or app at a time, I never got the wireguard hype.

You can do that though? Tailscale can as well. A device can advertise subnets, and can route them through tailscale, so you just need a single node in a LAN.

  • soulbadguy  5 hours ago

    > A device can advertise subnets, and can route them through tailscale

    This is still L3 layer though. One the main use case of L2 is proper DHCP propagation and avoid subnet collisions. I do not think that this matters in practices though. Only a limited amount of user facing service require proper L2 emulation (apple TVs ?)

    • user3939382  2 hours ago

      Or anything that uses multicast. The idea is you want homoiconic networking behavior and portability between local and remote. Hacking in special routing and subnets in L3 doesn’t give you that.

close04  11 hours ago

> Notice the no response, they know what they’re doing and they don’t care.

I was with you in principle until this part. You gave them ~30 minutes before claiming "no answer".