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- Leaves them where they landed. Slop check : yes +++ATHby time4tea
- In our use case latency went parabolic at 250 sessions pumping just 60 mb/s through a tunnel.by ykurtov
- I would like less battery usage with exit node.by aborsy
- I wonder if the post's focus on Linux/Android is just because that's where they started, or because they're leveraging techniques that are only possible on Linux/Android?by CharlesW
- I used to LOVE tailscale. Then I put wireguard on my home network exposed to the internet with a dynamic DNS provider and it immediately became irrelevant. Not only is raw wireguard more stable (I don't have to fight the DNS issues on my mobile phones) it feels faster and is amazingly simple to set up.by fitblipper
- In my opinion, this is Tailscale's largest issue.
It is slow. It can't achieve speeds of greater than 1Gbps on clients systems (Windows & Mac), where you'd normally see it being used. On Linux, it struggles to achieve 10Gbps even when using a synthetic large packet benchmark [1]. With an IMIX benchmark, it would not be competitive whatsoever.
This problem is fixable. WireGuard achieves higher performance (kernel vs userspace implementation) and IPsec implementations can achieve 100Gbps/400Gbps.
Tailscale seems to not have the appetite to make the required changes though, which is a shame.
by iscoelho