Tailscale firewall rules

1. What are the requirements for Tailscale?
2. Is Tailscale a VPN?
3. What are the drawbacks of Tailscale?
4. Is port 44158 TCP or UDP?
5. Does Tailscale use UDP?
6. Can I use port 444?
7. Does Tailscale encrypt Internet traffic?
8. How safe is Tailscale?
9. Is Tailscale always free?
10. What is Tailscale good for?
11. What are the minimum host bits needed if the network has 40 devices?
12. Does Tailscale hide IP?
13. Is Tailscale better than WireGuard?
14. Does Tailscale change my IP?
15. How do I allow local network access to Tailscale?
16. Is Tailscale open source?

What are the requirements for Tailscale?

Tailscale requires a Single Sign-On (SSO) provider, so you'll need a Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, OneLogin, or other supported SSO identity provider account to begin.

Is Tailscale a VPN?

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

What are the drawbacks of Tailscale?

Tailscale is not as privacy-friendly as other VPNs out there. Even though it allows you to create your own private network, it does require some communication with Tailscale's coordination server.

Is port 44158 TCP or UDP?

44158/TCP: the Miner communicates to other Miners over this port. The networking logic knows how to get around a lack of forwarding here, but you will get better performance by forwarding the port. 1680/UDP: the radio connects to the Miner over this port.

Does Tailscale use UDP?

Tailscale supports any IP protocol (TCP, UDP, etc), whereas ngrok only supports TCP. Users often use Tailscale to share other services between their different devices.

Can I use port 444?

The port 444 is standard for SNPP servers, and it is free to use from the sender's point of view. Maximum message length can be carrier-dependent.

Does Tailscale encrypt Internet traffic?

Devices running Tailscale only exchange their public keys. Private keys never leave the device. All traffic is end-to-end encrypted, always.

How safe is Tailscale?

Tailscale is a secure network for WireGuard-encrypted traffic, requiring no configuration and no new firewall rules. It uses OAuth2 (SSO), OpenID, or SAML for authentication, and creates point-to-point, fully-encrypted connections between clients and servers.

Is Tailscale always free?

Personal will always be free

The Personal plan for using Tailscale for your personal use on your own devices, will always be free. We remember how hard it is to connect to our Pi-hole, or our Minecraft server, or our dogcam, and don't wish that on anyone. It's not going anywhere.

What is Tailscale good for?

A frustratingly simple VPN. Tailscale lets you easily manage access to private resources, quickly SSH into devices on your network, and work securely from anywhere in the world.

What are the minimum host bits needed if the network has 40 devices?

In this example, since we need 40 addresses per network and we can allot addresses in powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and so on), the minimum number of addresses that would fulfil the requirement of 40 addresses is 64, which requires 6 bits for the hosts.

Does Tailscale hide IP?

Can I hide my IP address with Tailscale? Tailscale doesn't do this by default, however you can set up an Exit Node to do this. When you enable an Exit Node, all the traffic sent out to the internet will go through that node.

Is Tailscale better than WireGuard?

Tailscale does more than WireGuard, so that will always be true. We aim to minimize that gap, and Tailscale generally offers good bandwidth and excellent latency, particularly compared to non-WireGuard VPNs. The most significant performance difference is on Linux. On Linux, WireGuard is available as a kernel module.

Does Tailscale change my IP?

Once issued, your node's IP address will not change for as long as the node remains registered. Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are fixed.

How do I allow local network access to Tailscale?

Click on Tailscale icon and navigate to Use exit node. From here you can select the exit node device you'd like to use by its machine name. If you want to allow direct access to your local network when traffic is routed via an exit node, select Allow local network access.

Is Tailscale open source?

Tailscale is free for open source projects. With the Community on GitHub plan, you can use Tailscale for your project to access and share project resources, like a build tool or a test server. Any open source project with an OSI license can use this plan.