I have nothing to say except this is very cool and I'm keeping an eye on it! Thanks for sharing!
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Curious , isn’t this what Tailscale does also. It’s a cool project none the less.
It's extremely similar to Tailscale, and they are a major source of inspiration for a lot of the functionality.
The main difference is I am using a controller-less setup where each node maintains the state of their mesh via raft consensus. If a controller server goes down, another node will pick up the leader responsibilities. When requests come in that need to mutate network state, nodes will automatically forward the request to the leader node for you.
So kinda like a Tailscale - where you can disconnect and branch off at any time. Think...federated networks.
Looks interesting, bookmarking to try this out.
Is it fair to say Webmesh is your open source version of Nord VPN's Meshnet? https://meshnet.nordvpn.com/
Maybe? Quite possibly it seems. I'm not famiilar with it too much.
Very neat! Definitely a project I'd like to follow.
Makes me wonder if something similar could be implemented using frr, ospf, and ansible.
Almost certainly. At its core - everything happening could be accomplished with just regular configuration files. It's just a suite around maintaining the state basically.
I was considering adding FRR or BGP to the mix at some point - but it hasn't proven necessary yet.
Following this for the future. I had tried out netmaker but it was still a bit too alpha