First: I’ve tried Tailscale, for some reason it works awful for me so I’m avoiding that option if possible.
I am trying to have a single server that has a VPN port exposed to connect to it, but routes traffic through a comercial VPN (mullvad ideally) to privately share my linux ISOs. So far I haven’t been able to achieve this, it sees I can’t use the VPN server (wg-easy) + VPN (mullvad gui), only the one that start first work.
Has anybody achieve something like this?
Maybe give Zerotier a shot. Similar premise as Tailscale, but a simplified NAT and routing implementation.
My overall question though is…why??? If you have access to a VPN, why would you connect to another location to use it when you can just use it from anywhere?
I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.
It won’t work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.
Two cases.
One to have my server connect to the internet without exposing my traffic.
The second is to not have to chose between be connected to my server or be connected behind a VPN.
Honestly, if if wasn’t because tailscale is performing badly for the last few months, I wouldn’t have problems using and even paying for it.