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Re:Unifi Travel Router by seabrookmx on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @01:32PM (#46377974)
I install tailscale on my laptop. I then install tailscale on a desktop PC I have stashed in a closet at my parents. If they are both logged in to the same tailnet, I can access that desktop PC from my home without any addition network config (no port forwarding on my parents router, UPNP, etc. etc).

I like to think of it as a software defined LAN.

Wireguard is just the transport protocol but all the device management and clever firewall/NAT traversal stuff is the real special sauce.

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Re:Unifi Travel Router by devilbunny on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:23PM (#46386817)
> software defined LAN

That’s such an elegant way of putting it that they should use it in their marketing.

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