This past month, I was talking about how I spent $528 to buy a machine with enough guts to run more demanding AI models in Ollama. That is good and all but if you are not on that machine (or at least on the same network), it has limited utility. So, how do you use it if you are at a library or a friend’s house? I just discovered Tailscale. You install the Tailscale app on the server and all of your client devices and it creates an encrypted VPN connection between them. Each device on your “tailnet” has 4 addresses you can use to reference it:
- Machine name:
my-machine
- FQDN:
my-machine.tailnet.ts.net
- IPv4:
100.X.Y.Z
- IPv6:
fd7a:115c:a1e0::53
If you remember Hamachi from back in the day, it is kind of the spiritual successor to that.
There is no need to poke holes in your firewall or expose your Ollama install to the public internet. There is even a client for iOS, so you can run it on your iPad. I am looking forward to playing around with it some more.
https://jws.news/2024/joe-discovered-tailscale/
#Hamachi #Networking #Ollama #Tailscale