Feature request - Band Masking:
- allow band masking (OPEN or BLOCK) of WCDMA bands
This is a very small issue, but on my Spitz AX, the is no ability to either OPEN or BLOCK the WCDMA bands (only LTE, 5G NSA, and 5G SA bands are listed).
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That strikes me as more of a bug than a feature request. One would expect the ability to lock down ea. individual of the set, no?
Feature request - Tailscale for Opal (GL-SFT1200)
- It is capable of running WireGuard, therefore it is capable of running Tailscale. Sadly its architecture is ruining everything
Please don’t artificially limit devices.
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FYI: Tailscale is still in beta on the current stable 4.2.1-release4. “Upgrade to 4.x firmware for older products. (Beta versions of most models will be coming soon)” is stated to be released for v 4.6 so presumably that includes the Opal.
I tried to build it myself but failed pretty quickly, seems the Siflower/Sichang architecture is a bit different from regular MIPS so the binary won’t run. I really hope nobody pulls an “oh, this device is too old for us now, we don’t want to support it” kind of move. The beta is available for the Opal, just not tailscale, sadly.
Well good news, it seems! GL mentioned just 5 hours ago they’re building a 4.x for the Mango (GL-MT300N)… which was released, what, around 2017?:
… which is striking given what’s listed on
Great then! Still not the biggest fan of openwrt being seemingly stuck on 18.06 for my Opal, but I guess it’s fine as long as GL keeps updating it with patches and such
Then you’ll be happy to know GL f/w 4.2.1-release4, the current stable, is based on OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT. Their version 4.3 is mentioned to be based on owrt 22.0x.
They seem to be once release behind Upstream. I can live with that. YMMV.
Well, I’m currently on 4.3.2-beta1, it’s still 18.06. Seems like the version scheme doesn’t entirely correlate with OpenWRT releases haha
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Huh; well then… I guess that’s what I get for making an assumption of myself. I am corrected.
Hey, check this out fr GL re: Mango firmware:
The Mango is an MTK7620-based device, very well supported by even the official branch of OpenWRT. The SiFlower/SiChang SoC the Opal uses might as well be completely proprietary, there is an SDK but nobody really knows how to use it. Except GL.
As for Tailscale, it’s not looking good by GL’s vague response of “hardware limitations”. This is a very generic write-off. And I doubt it’s truly hardware limited, rather it’s limited because Golang wont directly compile for it 
Damn; when you put it like that… the news re: Mango’s age & f/w still being developed for it isn’t as exciting give the circumstances w/ Opal.
Well, it ain’t Tailscale but are you up to self hosting/VPS hosting an install of Firezone?
simple one add Watchcat within the interface, so wifi reboots if no internet
“Hardware limitations” say what? Now I have to figure out how to compress it. UPX seems to make it segfault.
I got it, but the binary is 30MB, because with UPX it refuses to launch 2 instances of itself, so we’re stuck at 30MB. I will write a guide, maybe someone can improve or put it in a nice tar or opkg package.
Geezus! My Slate AX currently only has 40.2 MB free! Why don’t you touch base w/ LanRat & see if there’s any tips they can pass along?
I don’t know who that is, but here’s the guide, let me know if you try it or if anyone has any improvements:
Installing Tailscale on Opal (SiFlower)
(big font for visibility haha)
I’m assuming it’s their screen name: