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Personally, if you're looking for "your own private" thing, I'm a much bigger fan of Tinc. The wireguards and zerotiers seem more appropriate for bigger, more corporate things?

I do wish Tinc had a slightly easier onboarding process, but once it's up, there's a great deal of stuff that I see people dealing with that Tinc users don't have to much think about, especially, e.g. the Mesh deal.




Wireguard has a dead simple onboarding process as well. For users you want to grant access - providing a QR code and them installing the wireguard client app on their mobile device is all that is needed. Also wireguard server itself is a easy setup and has very little overhead. Took me like few minutes to install and setup on a raspberry pi 3. Of course, you do have to open up a port on your router. That's the only downside. I've since switched to Tailscale for that specific reason.


Tinc was my goto for years, but there is a non-trivial performance penalty for it's userspace implementation.

If you can enumerate all your endpoints into wireguard, and squint, it'll kinda-sorta act like a mesh.

And if you want to go a little crazy with it, You can run https://github.com/m13253/VxWireguard-Generator + babeld, and get routing around failures in the mesh.


I don't think there are a lot of stuff easier to set up than ZeroTier, honestly. For me it has been a godsend.




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