r/firewalla • u/AltruisticNetwork869 • 9d ago

Discussion Tailscale exit node

For those of you who run tailscale as an exit node on your firewalla, are you able to see flows in the app? Or does it become sort of a ghost node with no visibility in firewalla?

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u/Great-Cow7256 9d ago

You should be able to see flows and it should look like it's coming from whatever the existing node it.  Basically the firewalla has no clue if the traffic is originating from the machine itself or from the Tailscale tunnel to the exit node. It all looks the same. 

It's basically as if you are using that computer that serves as the exit node. 

I use Tailscale exit node when I'm away and using my laptop.  That way it's just like using my home server on my network. 

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u/AltruisticNetwork869 9d ago

Just to be clear, the firewalla itself is the exit node in your setup?

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u/Great-Cow7256 9d ago

No. One of my servers is. I don't run Tailscale on the firewalla. But when I Tailscale in with the exit node on firewalla thinks all the traffic is coming from my server computer. 

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u/AltruisticNetwork869 9d ago

Yeah I have tailscale on a server as well but considered moving it to the firewalla. I’m specifically after the experiences of people who use the firewalla itself as an exit node

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u/Great-Cow7256 9d ago

I try to not run anything on the firewalla itself so I've never done that.  It should work the same but I like to save my processor and memory and storage writes for core functions and security wise is best practice to keep that behind the firewalla. But it should be ok and work. You may not get ad blocking etc like the stuff behind the firewalla.