Tailscale on Ubitique Edgerouter
Update
06.08.2021 : Updated blog to version 1.12.3 - Tested and working. 30.01.2021 : Updated blog to version 1.4.1 - Tested and working.
Tailscale is what I have been using, to get access to my demo enviroment, and allow clients to communicate with each other, across networks etc. But I have really missed, having it installed on my firewall, to make it act as a more traditional vpn. The firewall i’m using is an Ubitique Edgerouter lite.
While searching the internet, I found the following post
I got it working, but the commands was not 100% correct. So I thought I would fix them, and present them here.
The guide, which is working for me, is as follows :
Find the correct .mips.tgz file on this page
SSH to the edgerouter, and download the file, using the following command
curl https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.12.3_mips.tgz --output tailscale_1.12.3_mips.tgz
Untar the file
tar xvfz tailscale*.tgz
Open the directory
cd tailscale*_mips
Copy the files
sudo cp systemd/tailscaled.service /lib/systemd/system
sudo cp systemd/tailscaled.defaults /etc/default/tailscaled
sudo cp tailscale /usr/bin
sudo cp tailscaled /usr/sbin
Enable Tailscale to run as a service and at start
sudo systemctl enable tailscaled
sudo systemctl start tailscaled
sudo tailscale up
The last command will require you to autentificate the client. But now it should be running as a normal client, that you can use as a relay node, by running the following command (with your own subnets)
sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=10.0.0.0/24,10.0.1.0/24
You should now be running Tailscale, on you Edgerouter, and be able to use all the greatness that involves :-)
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