2.0 Creating a Tailscale Connection

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1. Go to your Tailscale Admin Console

2. Add new machine on user’s Tailscale

   • Add device > Linux Server
     
     
3. Generate install script
   
   
   
4. 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

5. Start up Tailscale in it:
   

   sudo tailscale up

6. Open the given login link and sign into Tailscale
   
7. Type in the following commands:

   Note - Change the advertise routes according to your subnet in a home lab environment

   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 

8. Enable the configured route on Tailscale
   • Edit route settings > Check the box with the IP route > Save
     

IMAGE SHOWING WHERE TO EDIT ROUTE SETTINGS: