Debugging My Family's Tailscale Exit Node (Part 2: Ethernet fixed it)
In Part 1 I left my family’s Windows PC with a dead Tailscale exit node and a plan. TL;DR - Using Ethernet fixed the issue, but I still don’t understand why. The fix The most important item on my Part 1 next-steps list was verify if the exit node works over Ethernet — because I’m the one using this exit node, and I was tired of being blocked. The issue is the PC wasn’t close to any router and there wasn’t a non-invasive way to extend an Ethernet cable to it. So, I had my family get a travel router that can connect to the WiFi network and use an Ethernet cable to plug it into the PC. This takes the USB WiFi dongle out of the internet path. ...