What are the steps to add tailscale to node? Any help would be appreciated .
If I can ask a preliminary question: What is the use case? Are you on ASL3?
There is a simple one-line curl command on the Tailscale website that will install the package and the key ring . It will then give you instructions on invoking it.
Carl/K6CRS
I need Tailscale to be able to log into the node at a repeater site remotely so as to make changes to things as needed without the need to travel to the site with a laptop. We are controlling two repeater sites with allstarlink as controllers. One is on a mountain and already has tailscale installed. Someone else did it for me.
Excellent time to learn, then. One line will do it:
(assuming you are NOT root…)
curl -fsSL https://www.tailscale.com/install.sh | sudo bash
and follow the directions, including going to the automatically generated URL it gives you at the end.
Carl/K6CRS
FYI, the install instructions for Tailscale are right on their website for each different operating system. This is a good opportunity to get a discussion going on Tailscale and learn how different nodes are configured for getting inbound traffic. You can make any public facing node an Exit Node. You can do port forwarding in the firewall rules to different Allstar Nodes on the Tailscale but I have unable to get this to work, as the node accepting the call rejects the connection, as it sees the incoming IP address as different from the public IP of the connecting node. IP Masquerading didn’t seem to get around this. Look for success stories.
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Tailscale is ideally suited for anyone behind a CGNAT. Very simple and user friendly
You need any help, Get in touch and I’ll be ready to help …73
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