Hello everyone, hope you are doing great.
I am not sure if my question goes here, but this was my best guess. Apologies if I am wrong.
So, I have been using the mesh network offered by NordVPN alongside with their VPN subscription to sync some folders between my phone (Android) and my laptop (Linux Mint). This was great because I remember not being able to use Tailscale and VPN at the same time in the past, at least not on my phone.
Now they are dropping Meshnet support in December, so I am trying to figure out if there’s any way I can still run NordVPN and a Meshnet, or if I have to discard one.
If you know of any alternative, please let me know!
Not really. I use the exit node to forward my “default” traffic through the VPN but I still use tunnels between my end devices too. My wife uses it to print documents from work and hell, I even shut off a lot of services on my LAN and made them Tailscale-only just as a way to force encryption (unnecessarily).
The problem is that it likely will break NAT traversal which means no direct connections.
Tailscale already has VPN integrations. I would recommend that you use that instead.
Tailscale only supports Mullvad VPN and when you do use it you’re stuck with its DNS server. It’s a super basic option and doesn’t allow for much customization.
On the exit node you should be able to setup routing so that traffic goes though a VPN route.
In the end though I honestly don’t see much of a use case for VPNs
So you’re just chiming in that people shouldn’t use it because you don’t see the use case for VPNs?