Does tailscale work for you yet?

Uland

I've heard that my freebsd 14.2 user friend had got it working. I think we are not on 14.2 freebsd yet right? Right now tailscale doesn't work for me.

vimanuelt

When you upgrade to the latest GhostBSD version, you will find it is available as a package. Give it a try.

Uland

vimanuelt Nope, didn't work well. I think because freebsd works differently than Linux in networking field.

Robin

Tailscale is a nice app for removing the scales from an alligator's tail so you can use the scales as a shield and have alligator tail for supper. Right?

Perhaps one of the changes GhostBSD can make is to rename some applications to reflect their function or tell what they're supposed to do. A brand new user probably wouldn't know that Thunar, for example, is a file manager. He may think, as I did at first, "What if I'm not worthy to use this application?"

(Thunar is the name of Thor's hammer in Norse mythology)

Now I'm curious, though. What's tailscale?

Uland

Robin Tailscale is wireguard's dumbed down, noob friendly version.
Gotta love those metaphors.

Ok I've tried it, it really doesn't work. I try to connect to my home network, which I do on Linux normally with
sudo tailscale up
sudo tailscale set --exit-node=my_tailscale_router

But it doesn't work like that on ghostbsd.

vimanuelt

Uland You can contact Tailscale's support team by submitting a ticket through their support. Alternatively, you can reach them directly via email at support at tailscale.com. Their email support is available in English from 9 AM to 6 PM Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday.

jordan0day

I'm a brand new ghostbsd user (just installed 25.01 tonight), and one of the first things I tried was tailscale. I installed it via the software station.

I ran sudo tailscaled to start the daemon from the terminal, and from another terminal ran sudo tailscale up, which gives you a link to click on to open a browser and sign in to your tailscale account and register the machine. After that point, it seems to have connected, my machine shows up in my tailnet, identified as running FreeBSD (see image).

I can ping other machines on my tailnet from my ghostbsd machine, so, at least a basic level, it seems to be working.

vimanuelt

That is great news! Thank you for the report.