Trying Cloudflare Mesh: It's not Tailscale

A while ago I posted about how I’m using Cloudflare Zero Trust Warp tunnels as the backbone for all my private networking. Any SSH connection I do to any of my devices goes through Warp and I’m all in all pretty happy with it. Color me surprised when Cloudflare announced Mesh (currently in beta), their own mesh networking product for private connectivity between devices and services. I finally had some time to test Cloudflare Mesh in my own network and compare it directly to the Tunnels setup I’ve been running for the past year. Let’s say, it’s not at all what I expected it to be! Quick refresher: Cloudflare Tunnels vs Tailscale Cloudflare Tunnels are tunnels routed through the Cloudflare network that terminate at some thing in your network. Can be a server, can be another machine, can be your router, you name it. The good thing: Everything goes through the Cloudflare network, so no issues with firewalls. The bad thing: Everything goes through the Cloudflare network, even if your…