How do Pangolin's private resources compare to other popular VPN services (Tailscale, NetBird, ZeroTier...)?

[Viable8237]

Hello,

when Pangolin added the private resources feature, I was curious to find out how it compares to/differs from other popular VPN services like Tailscale, NetBird or ZeroTier but it's pretty difficult as I don't have extensive experience with either. Some competitors provide fairly comprehensive comparison articles (see examples here or here).

Would it be possible for Pangolin to provide such a comparison as well?

Thank you!

[oschwartz10612]

Yes we will be writing up a bunch of blog articles in the coming months about the differences! Tailscale and Nerbird are great tools for building complex mesh overlay networks. Fundamentally, every node in the network can talk to every other node. This means you use ACLs to control this cross talk, and you address each peer by its IP on the network. They also require every node to run connector software to be joined into the network. With Pangolin we have a more traditional hub-and-spoke VPN model where each site represents an entire network of resources clients can connect to. Clients don't talk to each other and there are no ACLs; rather, you give specific users and roles access to resources on the site’s network. Since Pangolin sites are also an intelligent relay, clients use familiar LAN-style addresses and can access any host in the addressable range of the connector. Both tools provide various levels of identity-based remote access, but Pangolin focuses on removing network complexity and simplifying remote access down to users, sites, and resources, instead of building out large mesh networks.