Networking

I recently started experimenting with Tailscale, a tool that has significantly simplified the way I manage my personal network across devices. In this blog post, I’ll share how I discovered Tailscale, its core features, and my personal setup that leverages this powerful tool. Discovering Tailscale Through WebVM My journey with Tailscale began when I came across WebVM, an impressive project that allows you to run a virtual machine directly in your browser. Intrigued by the possibilities, I delved deeper and discovered that Tailscale could help me create a seamless, private network across all my devices. ...

Background After moving house, there are many more devices at home that need internet access. However, I don’t want to configure a proxy on each device, so I thought of using a transparent gateway. Transparent Gateway After some research, I found that the easiest way is to use the premium version of Clash, although I didn’t know when Clash released a premium version. I mainly referred to this article. It’s much simpler than setting up iptables. ...

What Is Bridging Bridging highly simulates a network card, making the router believe that the virtual machine’s network card truly exists. Personally, I feel it’s similar to resistors connected in parallel, whereas NAT (another common virtual machine network connection method) is more like parasitizing on the host’s network card. Why Use Bridging It allows you to treat the virtual machine as a completely independent machine, enabling mutual access with the external network (which is not possible with NAT). ...