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joecool1029 • yesterday at 10:23 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> I'd love some middle ground between wireguard and tailscale in terms of complexity, their clients have way too much stuff in them.

netbird's a thing to check out if you want an alternative to tailscale you can self-host.


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drum55 • yesterday at 10:27 PM

Netbird also, at least to me, has much too much stuff in it, perhaps even more. I would love to be able to connect to everything reliably no matter the network, the daemon doesn't need a reverse proxy, Ai agent routing and billing, in browser SSH client, it's all just attack surface. Tailscale allows you to compile a lot of it out as of a couple of weeks ago, but it's still an awful lot of code.

tamimio • yesterday at 11:15 PM

Netbird doesn’t have proper network isolation, due to its shared policy space compared to one gateway interface per customer/organization. Which is not an issue if you are the only user, but if you are building a service for customers to use, and there’s a potential scale up, it will be an issue, either having multi account mode which will results in many resources you need to deploy or containers per customer, or, having them all shared policy that could potentially allow customer to customer access if misconfiguration happens, alternatively, building a gateway in the middle to broker it all but traffic must pass through which is operational cost plus extra latency, and even privacy concerns.