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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34942012

I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:

  • Local network services
  • Tailscale services from userA
  • Tailscale services from userB
  • Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
  • Twingate from userD

Each user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.

  • Management via software
  • Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
    • Could even distribute such devices between these friends.

Thanks for all thoughts!

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[–] stratself 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sharing your Linux PC with a bunch of different users? Or are you sharing your Linux server with a bunch of different users?

[–] stratself 1 points 3 hours ago

If it's a bunch of users sharing a bunch of resources from behind a bunch of different VPNs, I guess the most simple way is to tell them to expose it to the internet

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Are you running your services directly on the host or via docker? All the VPN services listed provide docker images which I think should allow you to run multiple instances without them interfering with each other, although I've only played around with Tailscale myself. The setup would be slightly different depending on if your services are containers or not

[–] moistracoon@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

What do you mean? Is it working now? To my understanding this stuff either works or it doesn’t, what is going wrong for you? What are some things you’d like to make more seamless?

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 21 hours ago

Example setup:

  • Jellyfin user access from TailscaleA
  • Nextcloud user access from TailscaleB
  • Jellyfin user access from Wireguard
  • Jellyfin user access from Twingate
  • Jellyfin user access from local services

How would you manage this in a somewhat seamless manner?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is just basic network routing and subnetting.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Okay, although it certainly doesn't seem basic.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

You didn't really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm not sure what you'd like here. You didn't give much info.

Did you want someone to literally work out a full config for you in here? We don't know what you're even running.