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by jonpurdy 1172 days ago
I might be missing something; isn’t a Tailnet a bunch of user devices with wireguard tunnels connecting to each other directly? Where does the limit happen?

(And thanks for your work!)

Edit after 1 minute: of course, limit on Tailscale Funnel itself. (Too deep into thinking about Tailscale and forgot about the actual topic of the post. )

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Tailscale internally tries to punch NATs to make connections, but if it fails, it will use relay servers. These connections are throttled, and there'd probably be usage limits at some point.

If you allow tailscale through by using ipv6 or port forwards, tunnels will run at line speed with no limits.

fundamentally, something has to be punching NAT somehow, so they're probably taking the traffic on their own servers and relaying it to your machine via the tailnet.