Install tailscale on IPFire?

Networking
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When I follow the instructions at tailscale.com for performing a linux install, their script doesn’t recognize IPFire’s linux. While a Pakfire install would be most preferable, I’d be willing to interface with tailscale support to at least try to get IPFire support added to their script – but I’ll need to know a few more specifics on what exactly to tell them.

# curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
Couldn't determine what kind of Linux is running.
You could try the static binaries at:
https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#static

If you'd like us to support your system better, please email support@tailscale.com
and tell us what OS you're running.

Please include the following information we gathered from your system:

OS=other-linux
VERSION=
PACKAGETYPE=
UNAME=Linux ipfire.brazoslink.net 6.1.45-ipfire #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Aug 15 21:32:54 GMT 2023 x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

NAME="IPFire"
VERSION="2.27"
ID=ipfire
VERSION_ID=2
PRETTY_NAME="IPFire 2.27 (x86_64) - core180"
ANSI_COLOR="0:31"
[root@ipfire ~]#

FWIW I want to configure tailscale in order to get past MetroNet’s CGNAT.

2

Wireguard currently is not part of IPFire. Personally doubt that without wireguard support IpFire could be a suitable environment for Tailscale.

However: personal opinion only.

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Yeah, looks like that’s indeed the case. Insufficient due diligence on my part before trying to set it up in the first place. I’ll have to either use OpenVPN to do a site-to-site, or just use Anydesk to remote control a box inside that network.