Yes, this is what IP routing does. Your router needs to know where to send that traffic, and the tunnel gateway (your server) needs to accept and route it over the tunnel.
Don't forget that packet responses also need to reach your device.
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This is what is called a site to site VPN connection. Id suggest just using wireguard without tailscale given the amount of set up you need is minimal. A typical pattern is to connect a site to site VPN on each router of the given network you want to connect. Lots of router software support wireguard nowadays so depending on the software you may just be able to search for your router software + site to site VPN configuration.
That being said tailscale also has docs on this: https://tailscale.com/kb/1214/site-to-site
The routers or computers you are using for this have to support forwarding traffic. With Linux this is pretty straight forward for other OSes I'm not sure how easy it is.
Yep, just enable subnet routes in your Tailscale admin console and check "advertise routes" on both servers - that'll let all your devices use the Tailscale connection without needing the client installed on evrything.
The routers or computers you are using for this have to support forwarding traffic. With Linux this is pretty straight forward for other OSes I'm not sure how easy it is.
You can get around this by having tailscale installed on the default gateway (router) of each network. It might be quite a pain for OP to change routers at each location. On the plus side, OpenWRT has some other cool features like PXE booting.
pangolin might be cool for this?