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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • Sure.

    So local traffic is how devices in one network communicate. E.g say you have two computers in your home network, as long as they are joined to your wi-fi they can “talk” to each other without any intermediary between them.

    Since VPN clients take over your device network, they also setup special rules to bypass your local network so that your device can continue to talk to other devices in your home network.

    Tailscale doesn’t setup these rules and instead expects you install Tailscale to the other devices to continue this inter-connectivity. Could be a malevolent move so that they can jack up the number of installs but I think it’s totally dumb.

    Split tunneling is a way to tell the VPN client to bypass an app so that the app does not use the VPN network and uses your local network instead.