Re:Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative
by clpwn on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:15AM
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Latency and bandwidth was a big issue for us - innernet uses the WireGuard kernel module on Linux when available, which is about as good as you can get (easily achieving saturated gigabit line speeds).
macOS is a different story, since there are only userspace implementations at the moment. Innernet currently looks for the official "wireguard-go" implementation, but you can swap out userspace implementations as you like. I'll add an environment variable check to make that easier without needing to recompile.
Tailscale does use considerable CPU on my Mac though.
[0]: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/net/tstun/t...