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adyanth / openwrt-tailscale-enabler

Brings Tailscale to low powered OpenWRT devices
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Lost in update process #6

Closed mrogojanu closed 3 years ago

mrogojanu commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I've managed to install tailscale on Archer C7 v5 (128MB ram / 16MB flash). So far so good and looking forward to update it as being notified in the admin panel for using an older version. The current version on https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static seems to be tailscale_1.12.3_mips.tgz while the one installed on router is:

root@OpenWrt:/usr/bin# tailscale --version 1.8.5 tailscale commit: 118cf0cd75f92bbe3d994a5b1587c9ea3553221b other commit: c6fd9c9d5657e82c2d7888804ebce0e8bd6a4556 go version: go1.16.4-ts1b677aa

, on git hub page the reference is for version="1.2.10_mips" which seams be higher than 1.12.3 as last version on download page. Confused here.

Moreover the size of tailscale/tailscaled in tailscale_1.12.3_mips.tgz package is around 10MB each file while the one installed with openwrt-tailscale-enabler is around 1KB each. So I am probably looking at wrong packages for the update on my openwrt router. Kindly request some guidelines.

adyanth commented 3 years ago

Tailscale does not provide old version downloads (yet). This is a pain, and the only workaround for now is to set the version to the one available on pkgs.tailscale.com.

Also, 1.2.10 is not higher than 1.12.3. 1.20 would be. You can set the version to 1.12.3 in both /usr/bin/tailscale and /usr/bin/tailscaled, and it should run just fine. Refer https://github.com/adyanth/openwrt-tailscale-enabler/issues/5

Regarding the size, you are probably looking at the file /usr/bin/tailscale[d] which is just a bash file. This will download the actual 10+ MB binary to /tmp/tailscale[d] and run it from there, since the /tmp lives on RAM where we have space.

mrogojanu commented 3 years ago

Thank's for quick feedback. Manual editing the versions resolved the issue.