Tailscale Subnet Router Setup - Extending Your Local Network

Tailscale is easy and works great when you have client applications set up on your devices, however, there are times when you want to reach other devices that are unable to get the client or you simply do not want to use the client. Today we are going to walk through how to set up and a subnet router on Tailscale which will allow access to the rest of your devices.

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[CharcoalDaddyBBQ]

Great video! I had a much more complicated setup in mind for doing this. Your video is very helpful! Thank you!

[Cdaprod]

Tailscale is a beast! Overlay networks are where it’s at!!!

[rullywow]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Im going to try this with my TailScale setup today.

[donsylvester]

Happy to see you continuing to work with TailScale. I hope you will do a video on how users might implement TailScale on a QNAP NAS so it can be accessed remotely without the hassle of setting up and maintaining a 'standard' VPN.

[AinzOoalGwn]

i only recently learned about tailscale. i'm looking through it to understand how to use it. so ur video helps in that regard, especially for how to remote and access ur nas without exposing it insecurely online.

thx for the video

[rkbest]

I am up and running in less than an hour, just becasue i was reading the docs too. else this is the easiest vpn alternative with a kill switch that always available even if you are outside your network. Awesome!

[rustyb]

Just learned about TS. I’ve been using OpenVPN for several years but this is pretty nice as well.

[Pansenpummel]

😮Thanks for the video, that's exactly the information I was missing.

[zracer]

Thank you good sir, yours is the only explanation that made any sense. 🎩

[JulianPhillips-lzbn]

Thanks Mike! I followed along and was able to spin up a Ubuntu VM on my unraid server and create subnet router option. Cheers!!

[ben]

Thanks! Was useful to enable my subnet with PiKVM

[hoonetic]

I love that I don't need to open ports on my router just to access my servers from work. Tailscale is just amazing! I love it!

[AI-PhotographyGeek]

Mike One thing I have to say is that your explanation was one of the best! I understood almost everything!! Kudos to your work!! I have just one question why did you select "192.168.0.0" and "192.168.40.0"? I'm sorry I'm not an advanced user, my question might be very basic.

[riddlediddleriddle]

Nice demo! I'm tinkering with it right now, but I can't seem to make the traffic bi-directional.

Works: Tailscale Host –> Tailnet –> Subnet Router –> Host
Doesn't Work: Host –> Subnet Router –> Tailnet –> Tailscale Host

I tried routing all packets for 100.64.0.0/10 to the local IP of my subrouter

[MichaelVogtOK]

Thank you for this.

I have a very limited understanding of networks (never created a vlan), so I wasn't sure about those subnet IP addresses. I did have it right, but it was nice to see your example to confirm that I had the right idea.

I have it working now, and like a lot of stuff with Tailscale, my main takeaway is that they've made this stuff too easy. I keep assuming I'm missing something because it just can't be that easy, but then it _is_ that easy.

Can you have multiple subnet routers at multiple locations, so long as they're advertising different subnet routes?

[eduardoalmontemieses]

Great video, thank you. Wondering what happens if the remote subnets on tailscaile is the same as my local one, wont there be conflicts with IPs

[danielr]

Would love to see the next steps needed to get DNS working over the subnet router so you can hit internal resources by name. Perfect example would be AD connected devices communicating with an AD server / file server.

[Thanhvo]

Hello @Mike , appreciate your guide. Could you give me some advice on my use case: I have a LG OLED TV (use webOS, no client available for WG or Tailscale) and I want to connect it to and VPS to route all traffic to use Youtube premium features. I had tried with TS subnet but seem no luck with it. Thank you

[tonyvalenti]

Been using Tailscale for a while. Works great. This is new and interesting to me. Question, what I’d your subnet router, in this case your Linux VM is stopped or rebooted? Do you have to manually enter everything in the command line again?

[bbrown_sc]

Great video. I haven't installed Tailscale yet. This video is for accessing other hosts (not running the Tailscale client) on your local subnet from remote hosts running the Tailscale client, correct? On a local subnet can a Tailscale client host access a non-Tailscale client host? When you install a Tailscale client does create a virtual network interface in addition to the existing network interface?