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2.0 Creating Tailscale Connection 🔗

*PAT= placeholder name 

  1. Add new machine on user’s Tailscale

    • Add device > Linux Server

  1. Generate install script

  1. Copy and paste install script into user’s Ubuntu Server VM (might have to manually type it out // all one line)

EXAMPLE:

curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | 
sh && sudo tailscale up --auth-key=tskey-auth-kEc5KrwcPv11CNTRL-rsE7QpaFhNeKRnTdUALKJgbkJ2Vg

  1. Start up Tailscale in it:

sudo tailscale up

  1. Open the given login link and sign into Tailscale

  2. Type in the following commands:

Connect to Tailscale as a subnet router:
echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

Advertise subnet routes:
sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24 (x.x.x.x/y)

  1. Enable the configured route on Tailscale

    • Edit route settings > Check the box with the IP route > Save

EXAMPLE:

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