EtherTalk routing across Tailscale

[ereuter]

I have my home and office networks integrated with Tailscale. Each sees the other as a subnet, facilitated by having a linux machine acting as a subnet router at each location. I'm trying to figure out what would be required to bridge EtherTalk between the two networks. I would also like to integrate LocalTalk. I have a EtherPrint doing this on one network at the moment, but I assume a TashRouter might accomplish both functions? If I put a TashRouter on each network, can I tell them to talk to each other across subnets?

 

[robin-fo]

You‘ll have to encapsulate the Ethernet frames

 

[ereuter]

I know. I’m asking the best way to do that.

 

[cheesestraws]

gre? eoip?

 

[ereuter]

I assumed one LToUDP or something like that would work, but I’m not clear on whether it supports EtherTalk.

I wouldn’t want to send every Ethernet frame on the network to the other network - just the ones relevant to EtherTalk. Maybe that’s trivial, but I don’t know how to do it.

 

[robin-fo]

I‘d just write some Python scripts which filter out DDP / AARP frames and send them over your network. I use a central MQTT broker as a hub for exactly this purpose. If you don‘t know how to write Python scripts, any good AI model will help you.

 

[cheesestraws]

I‘d just write some Python scripts which filter out DDP / AARP frames and send them over your network. I use a central MQTT broker as a hub for exactly this purpose

you do DDP over MQTT? My goodness. What's that for?

 

[robin-fo]

you do DDP over MQTT? My goodness. What's that for?

Why not?

 

[ereuter]

I have enough Python experience to know that this project would make me crazy. I was hoping someone else had already sorted it out and packaged it up.

 

[cheesestraws]

Why not?

fair comment!