I see Wireguard, can Tailscale be supported?

[thereal-BLKMGK]

Tailscale is based on Wireguard but makes setup even easier. Would adding Tailscale be possible? It's able to run on routers so hopefully the processor wouldn't be an issue.

[gtxaspec]

tailscale works, but the binaries are huge, exceeding the total capacity of the onboard flash storage chips. you can download the binaries to an sd card and run it from there.

[thereal-BLKMGK]

Oh duh, you're right it's a pig and I've been used to putting it on things with much more storage. I like your idea of using the SD card though! I've ordered up a pile of cards and will hopefully be able to poke at it tomorrow - thank you for pointing that out! I'll report back as to how it goes, hopefully as smooth as my Unifi router went :) I'll be trying a microUSB ethernet\POE thingy next!

[numericOverflow]

@gtxaspec - Obviously it's still hefty, but looks like the tailscale docs claim to get the binary down to ~5mb

https://tailscale.com/kb/1207/small-tailscale

Do you know if their suggestions were used when you tested the binary in these commits, or did you just want to avoid the idea of a packer completely for all the reasons?

• add thingino-tailscale package 4eef7cf
• tailscale: drop package due to its huge size 3fdeadb

[gtxaspec]

i can add the package back into the repo compressed, but it's still too big to include enabled by default obviously. if you compile your own build, which is very easy, you'll be able to include it.

[gtxaspec]

another issue is i can't get tailscale to compile from source using the buildroot system...

[gtxaspec]

ok i figured it out. compressed, the combined binary tailscale is now 4.4mb.
thanks to @numericOverflow for the link to small tailscale.

[gtxaspec]

added back in:
cec0c1d
enable with BR2_PACKAGE_THINGINO_TAILSCALE=y