Help installing Tailscale

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se325919
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Re: Help installing Tailscale

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Hi Lantis.
Initially I used a passive USB hub right at the start of my experimentation but quickly realised that the router was not supplying enough power to keep the internal battery of the 4G device charged. It ran out of charge after less than a day and went off. From then on I have been using a powered hub with 2A power supply which is plenty.

Within Gargoyle GUI the USB stick remains set to the USB stick. 'which tailscale' returns '/usr/sbin/tailscale'.

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Re: Help installing Tailscale

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Try opening two SSH sessions.
In one, do “logread -l” (lowercase L)
This will print the system log to the window and print all new entries as they arrive.

Then do your tailscale up in the other window and see if it prints any errors.

It is difficult to advise any further except what changed between now and when it was initially working?
Assuming you added firewall rules and network interfaces, do those still exist ok?
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se325919
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Re: Help installing Tailscale

Post by se325919 »

Hi Lantis. I will give that a go when I get home. I didn't create any network interface or firewall rules because I was not able to translate that portion of the instructions from OpenWRT to what I was seeing in Gargoyle.

I will start a new thread soon about the hardware of this router. One notable thing is that this chipset is known to support 2 USB ports (1x USB 2.0 and 1x USB 3.0) so I will try to investigate adding the second USB port.
I also want to explore options to increase the internal memory by possibly swapping the chip, and have 2 possibilities in mind for this.

Does anyone know where to find service manuals or schematics for Netgear/SerComm products?

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