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Tailscale

Tailscale

Overview

Tailscale is is a VPN based on Wireguard and allows you to connect your devices in a wireguard mesh network.

Installation

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curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh

Usage

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tailscale up

Flags

  • --ssh - Enable the Tailscale SSH server to eliminate the need for managing SSH keys manually.
  • --advertise-routes=192.0.2.0/24 - Advertise routes so you can access devices over Tailscale where it cant be installed directly.
  • --accept-routes - Accept routes to other Tailscale nodes.
  • --exit-node - Use a specific node as the exit node for all traffic.

If you use routes or exit nodes you need to confirm this in the route settings of the device in the tailscale admin console.

Full documentation can be found here.

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