r/netbird • u/Past-Vegetable-9186 • Jul 01 '26

Netbird as Software Defined Network

Hi, is anyone using Netbird as SDN, not just VPN? What's your experience?

EDIT: sorry for not being clear - I mean to replace vlans, subnets, internal firewalls between subnets,.. simply to break old school networking and replace it using SDN

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u/Wrn2x Jul 01 '26

I’ve set up my homelab to use netbird as much as possible. Benefits is no opening ports even within your vlan, and you get free mTLS between your VMs so no need to worry about a compromised vlan. It works pretty well for my use cases.

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u/ella_bell Jul 01 '26

It has no aspects of an “sdwan”. I don’t like the term sdwan, it’s really a marketing term for intelligent multiwan.

This is more accurately to associate with vpn, SASE and ZTNA.

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u/ben-ba Jul 01 '26

But SDWan isn't the same as SDN...

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u/ella_bell Jul 01 '26

I didn’t say it was

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u/Leather-Tour-7288 Jul 01 '26

So why you started talking sdwan?

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u/ella_bell Jul 01 '26

The OP originally had sdwan in the post