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Just use wire guard, which is the backbone of tailscale.
Tailscale could rug pull one day or start charging.
Sounds like OP could handle wire guard setup.
That's true, they could. So could the devs of Wireguard. I see zero implication that either will.
Worry is interest paid on a debt you don't have.
TS already has a paid tier, so I don't see it as likely. And if they do change in someway, I can either move to paid or move to WG then, if needed.
Plus it's much easier to setup and manage, and has some neat features like Funnel. It's as easy as running an installer on the machines, and creating an account.
Last I checked (perhaps a year ago) Wireguard still required a bit of manual effort to connect machines to each other (generating/sharing keys, updating each machine config, etc), while Tailscale handles that by using an account which manages key distribution.
You can self-host TS to not be dependent on their servers for the account management. That doesn't sound like developers that are going to "pull the rug".
It's interesting, I see TS doing a lot of stuff Hamachi did 20 years ago, with having relay capability if ports can't be forwarded/opened via UPNP, or you're on a firewalled network. I'm a bit surprised it took this long, Hamachi was great in the early 2000's.
I don't see them going away, they've really developed. I'll be moving to a paid tier when I rebuild my network and lab, not that I need to, but it'll be nice to have support, and I'll be contributing to a tool that I've missed for years in Hamachi.