Three nodes behind same firewall, only one using relay

1

I have three remote machines behind the same firewall. Tailscale gives me a direct connection to 1 and 2, but 3 uses relay and is much slower as a result. This happens when I connect from different locations, it seems to be host specific rather than client specific.

On the host using the relay I have performed tailscale down and tailscale up, and also logged completely out and back in again.

What do you think?

2

I replaced the firewall with something less brain-dead and now all three nodes are direct. Very strange though.

3

Which firewall did you use? We’d like to update our documentation and maybe see if we can find a workaround for customers stuck behind such a firewall.

4

It was a brain-dead old Linksys WRT series. I don’t think it could manage more than two UPnP mappings. I didn’t lose any sleep about trashing it.