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That, plus fanatically good NAT Traversal: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/


But isn't that just part of Wireguard itself? In the end that's what's happening in my case when I exchange data through Wireguard between my flat and the one of my parents... .


No, wireguard is just the VPN itself.

The NAT traversal stuff is all magic that happens before the socket is given to wireguard.


thx


A bit offtopic, but how did they create the visualizations? Do they have a designer on their team for that or is there any good tool that creates charts like these?


A designer drew them: https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1241188397013774337

I took a stab at recreating one of the diagrams here, using pikchr: https://zellyn.com/2022/02/tailscale-diagram-in-pikchr/




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