Why there is no support for netbird or netmaker?

[wattbaron]

Hello Community and GL.Inet Team,

I don’t really understand the policy of Gl.Inet.
I mean they build router for VPN and then there is no support of Netmaker or Netbird.

I have 2 AXT1800 and i made the work arround with netbird - At the end I figuered out the netbird version ist totally old and no featueres.. Not upgradeable…

The main thing of building these routers ist VPN or am i wrong? - Took them years to implement VPN suppliers. In a world where everything is geoblockt, i need somehow a connection between Home and Abroad. At home i have Dual Stack - Abroad i have only IPV4.

That’s really a nightmare and I need to invest so much time and headache.

The openWRT Version of AXT 1800 is 23.05 and somewhere I found 25.12
Upgrade other firmware and hope for updated software. That crashed my AXT1800 complete.

Gl.Inet build Wifi7 travel routers with 2.5Gbit WAN interfaces. What is the usecase of that? - In which Hotel I have 2.5Gbit LAN? - I working as an engineer worldwide. With a stable 100Mbit LAN i would be very happy in many countries.

Mhh. 5 Years I made side-to-side vpn with my home over ipv4.
Now my home has DSlite (Fibre), so only VPN over ipv6 possible.
Now i need to hope, the Hotel my Boss booked, has ipv6.
I also rent a server with ipv6 and ipv4 and connect my home and travelrouter to it.
But I cannot use my home as an exit node then.

I’m not the only one here for asking for netbird support or netmaker.

So the solution is: Waiting for hotels, that they have ipv6 or wait for GL.Inet for implement netbird or netmaker.

And that’s in a year 2026.

Please GL.Inet, don’t invest time in building Travelrouters with specs, no one need. Build travelrouter with software people need. The hardware is already good enough.

Best Regards,

Mario

[will.qiu]

Hi

If your ISP does not provide a public IP address, preventing you from hosting a WireGuard/OpenVPN server, you may consider using our Astrowarp service.

AstroWarp - GL.iNet Router Docs 4

Alternatively, you can use the built-in Tailscale feature integrated into the firmware.

Configuring port forwarding with CGNAT

Hi Our devices currently do not support advertising themselves as a Tailscale exit node. You can refer to the following guide to configure it manually: Alternatively, you can install a plugin provided by a forum user:

If you still prefer to use NetBird, you can refer to the following guide to install and use it (latest version):

How to configure GL.iNet router to use NetBird exit node as Internet

Dear Users, NetBird is a similar to software for remote virtual networking with firmware pre-installed Tailscale, Zerotier, AstraWarp (Powered by GL.iNet), but NetBird is not pre-installed in the router firmware (as of the publication of the topic, we have no plans to pre-install NetBird in GL firmware). Some users may still would like to use NetBird because they already have some devices that have been installed and bound to NetBird, and the NetBird device hosted an exit node. Since the GLiN…

[AndrewF17]

Hi guys, if you are interested of using netbird on gl-inet hardware I created a custom app that installs as a .ipk and works on GL-X2000. It has also an UI integration.

I didn’t tested on other router but if you find any issues feel free to contribute with a PR or ope an issue.

Here is the GitHub project: GitHub - AndreaF17/netbird-glinet-integration · GitHub