You do not need to install it on all your devices. See https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets
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Edit: I meant to reply to the other person saying you needed it on all clients.
Yes, Subnet routing is what's needed. It works fine.
It can do exactly what you are asking for. Just search for subnetrouting in the tailscale documentation.
Thats what im doing to access all of my different services ans devices remotly. Without installing it on every device.
It is really easy to setup.
Tailscale can act as a site to site vpn, but it's best used as a meshvpn imo with as many things as possible in it.
Why? Because the dynamic dns is so powerful. Every host name automatically is in every other tailscale joined computer automatically. My NAS (Truenas in my case) is just "nas" so to access it it's just https://nas. Same with my rustdesk server on https://rustdesk. Jellyfin? You guessed it: https://jellyfin.
Why is this cool? I moved my box between other networks and it just works again. No ips changed.
I take it to work. It just works. I keep one server at my parents place? It just works.
But my printer doesn't have the ability to join the tailnet so I use subnet routing to create a node on that network to act as a NAT router to get to and from that printer.
You can even define exit nodes so if I install tailscale on my parents TV in another state, they can exit their internet via my home which has my IP and therefore Netflix counts it as inside my residence.
Anyway just some considerations. I generally use the subnet routing as a last resort. My 3 node proxmox cluster is all joined and if I took a node to my parents it would literally just work, if slower, as a cluster member. Crazy. Very cool
Wouldn’t it be better to just set up your own VPN tunnel to be independent? I mean, you have a Pi running.. Use dynDNS if your puplic address is not static. Of course, you need a domain for that, but if you don’t need a fancy name, they are pretty cheap. Or is there another reason why you have chosen tailscale?
Honestly the reason is I thought that it was an easy way to fit my use case- I just may have misunderstood what it was capable of.
Your use case is similar to mine, tailscale works great. Used to have a dedicated VPN but chose tailscale over that.