[Feature Request] Bake tailscale (or alternative) into Moonlight-Switch

[joshurawr]

[Feature Request] Bake tailscale (or alternative) into Moonlight-Switch

[XITRIX]

On the first glance tailscale looks like close source enterprise solution which is barely possible to implement into open source homebrew app. If you'll find any good open source alternative, maybe I could check, but right now it looks almost impossible

[joshurawr]

Two potential paths forward as I see it.

While Tailscale is definitely "enterprise oriented" and they do sell services to enterprise, it is actually open source. The only caveats are their GUI applications (CLI is BSD-liscensed) and their coordination server (which they host). You can self host that with BSD-licensed Headscale, which they actively work with and advertise, but I don't think that even matters for the client integration.

The other potential solution is called Nebula, which is developed by Slack. It is not a product and Slack doesn't sell or operate any services relating to Nebula. MIT licensed. The main downsides are that it's not as popular as Tailscale, and if you want to run this with magical nat-punching handshake coordination, then you have to self host a server component (which they call "lighthouse"), whereas self hosting would be optional with Tailscale.

Citations:

https://tailscale.com/opensource
https://tailscale.com/blog/opensource
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

[fejich]

Networking should be done on an OpenWRT router. A second-hand router is very cheap.

Half a year ago, I used Tinc VPN to build a Mesh network connecting multiple places. In addition to using Moonlight for multiplayer streaming of computer games

It can also enable local LAN connection of NS native games.