Posts tagged “private-network”
Connect to a Raspberry Pi remotely: desktop, SSH and any port
Reach a Raspberry Pi from anywhere without port forwarding: install the arm64 agent, open its screen in a browser tab, SSH by name and tunnel to any port.
What a DERP relayed connection means and how to go direct
A DERP relayed connection means no direct path was found. Why a pair lands on a relay, in the order the causes occur, and how to get it back to direct.
CGNAT port forwarding workaround: reaching your own devices
CGNAT blocks port forwarding because the ISP owns the public address. Reaching your own machines needs no inbound port: how it works, and what it cannot do.
How a SOCKS5 proxy works, and how to run one into your own LAN
What a SOCKS5 proxy does at connect time, why remote-side DNS matters, and how to run one from your laptop into a network only one of your machines can see.
Reach a NAS and printer from anywhere with a subnet router
Set up a subnet router so your laptop reaches a NAS, printer and hypervisor from anywhere, and avoid the overlapping 192.168.1.0/24 trap and ACL denials.
What NAT traversal is, and how two machines pick a path through NAT
What NAT traversal means, the ladder from LAN to hole punching to a TLS 443 floor, why NAT-type guesses fail, and how to see which path a pair is on.
Open source Tailscale alternatives and the gaps each one has
Headscale, NetBird and Roomler compared on one test: whether the control plane is open source. Each one's gaps named first, with self-host commands.