| > Meshnet is their peer-to-peer secure networking solution, not their conventional VPN solution. What you're describing as a "peer-to-peer secure networking solution" -- i.e. tunneling through the public internet securely to join your device to a LAN -- is what "VPN" actually refers to. The "conventional VPN" solution you're referring to is just a secure forwarding proxy, which is only a subset of VPN functionality. > It was essentially their Tailscale / ZeroTier offering, but in the opposite manner to Tailscale which added Mullvad integration to provide a more conventional VPN What Tailscale and Zerotier offer is close to full VPN functionality, whereas Mullvad offers the same limited traffic forwarding service as Nord and also conflates that with VPN generally. A better way of describing this is that Mullvad adds a secure tunneling layer to the conventional VPN managed by TailScale. > atop their mesh network. There are no mesh networks involved in any of this. Mesh networking is a technique where low-level network topology is established via ad hoc handshaking between individual nodes, without central routers. None of these services are even operating at that layer. As I said, all of the terminology in this space is muddled up pretty severely. |