Routing to Tailscale clients from a local network with OPNSense

Overview Effectively, what we’re trying to accomplish here today is the opposite of a Tailscale Subnet Router. As in, allowing clients on our local network to talk to devices via their Tailscale subnet IP addresses. When I started looking into how to do this, I could not find a complete guide on the topic. I’ll do my best to do this start to finish so that anyone else can follow along with me. ...

August 15, 2026 · 4 min

Setting up OpnSense as an AirVPN client

I recently set up my OpnSense firewall at home with a connection to AirVPN using Wireguard. It was a bit more complicated than when I did it for Mullvad last year, so I figured I’d document it here for anyone who finds this useful. 1. Device Creation Log into your AirVPN account and navigate to the client area. Click on Manage Devices. You can either edit the existing “default” device or create a new one. Either way, I recommend editing the name of the device so that you know what it is, 6 months down the line. I called mine “Opnsense”. ...

December 3, 2024 · 6 min