Re:Choose Your Own IP
by jakedata on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:57PM
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I hope they are working on improving firewall traversal. Lots of firewalls don't allow symmetrical UDP NAT ports, causing clients to fall back to DERP relays on TCP port 443. It's a lot slower. It is possible to work around this by statically mapping inbound UDP ports but that is clearly not an ideal situation. I generally love Tailscale though, amazing work all around.
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Oh I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing this.
Do you know of a straightforward way to identify that this is happening: where one node is using DERP or one link between your nodes is falling back to DERP?
Re:Choose Your Own IP
by cassianoleal on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:26PM
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`tailscale status` should tell you which nodes do or don't have a direct connection.
Re:Choose Your Own IP
by ianlevesque on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:23PM
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From the extensive blog posts about all the tricks they already use, I’d assume they’ve squeezed all the juice from that orange.