Comment by briancmoses | Hacker News Reader

Comment by briancmoses | Hacker News Reader

At the price Raspberry Pis are being sold (scalped) for it's discouraging and disappointing to see content creators continually going to that well.

You can buy a travel router like the GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal) for $39.99. All of Gl.iNet's devices run OpenWRT already. Setting up Wireguard on OpenWRT is easy, and using Tailscale is even easier!

Edit: Jeff's been creating awesome Raspberry Pi content for a long time and I'm glad that he's not stopping given the current circumstances. I hope that his audience has an abundant supply of unused RPis looking to be utilized.

In Jeff's shoes I'd want to speak to those in his audience who DON'T have a Raspberry Pi and save them from paying scalpers prices until things return to normal--assuming that they ever do.

> GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal)

According to https://docs.gl-inet.com/en/4/tutorials/tailscale/ the GL-SFT1200 (Opal) does not support Tailscale but different models from GL.iNet do.

I made a open-wrt repo that auto-builds Tailscale for my older GL-Inet router for this exact use case: https://lanrat.github.io/openwrt-tailscale-repo/

It's actually not simple currently to use Tailscale as an exit node on GL.iNet routers (due to some conflict with mwan3). That's besides the fact that the cheaper routers in their lineup are not very performant and as a sibling mentioned, not capable of running Tailscale.

Did you read the article?

> PiVPN, luckily, runs on any other Pi-like device, though, as long as it's running a Debian or Pi-OS-like distro.

So…Linux?

ARM architecture I guess

under Features in [1]:

* Doesn't need to be a Raspberry Pi™, It runs on any x86_64 system

[1] https://pivpn.io/

To me it sounds a bit more restricted than any Linux.

Any Debian isn't too bad though.

Any concerns over routers made in China?

It’s true that a lot of chips are made in China. Nevertheless, the question remains.

the gl-inet stuff runs OpenWRT just with another interface, you can flash with vanilla but I've never seen anything dodgy on the ones I've played with.

Chinese manufacturing still dominates and they produce most of the routers and modems out there. If we can’t trust routers from China then virtually the entire world is compromised.

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