Planned Netbird devices

[marmoun]

Based on discussions in the forum, it was planned to add Netbird on the 7.17 firmware release.
7.18 is now released, and the only device that supports Netbird is RUTC50.

is there any plan for supporting Netbird on RUTx50 or any other devices? If yes, when would be the timeline for that

Sincerely

[anon65719490]

Hello,

As you mentioned, currently, only the RUTC50 supports Netbird, because it requires significantly more RAM and storage than other devices, including the RUTX series, can provide. Unfortunately, due to Netbird’s high memory and storage usage, it is not yet possible to support it on RUTX or other models, and there is no confirmed timeline for such support at this time.

If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out.

Best regards,

[Sublet6241]

Hello,

Indeed it takes some my memory on my rutx50 but for my usage it is working fine for more than 4 months.

I used it as a gateway to the services i am hosting on raspberry on my boat.

with and without the netbird services started.

not a big deal but it would be nice to not have to reinstall it every time i install a new firmware.

[marmoun]

@Sublet6241

Thanks for the message.

Could you please tell me which version of the client you installed? I installed the version 0.54

With this my total RAM usage was around 80% and it kept crashing. But when it was working, i could connect to device without problem.

Sincerely

[Sublet6241]

Hi,
I am using the version netbird_0.50.2-r1 from the openwrt repository.
Good luck

[marmoun]

Hi again @Sublet6241
Did you edit the distfeeds.conf file to point to a different version of OpenWRT?
Mine i pointing to 21.02, but the version netbird_0.50.2-r1 is not available until version 24.10.0 of OpenWRT.

Sincerely

[Sublet6241]

Hi Marmoun,

I am using the file from 24.10.1
long story short.
I did test 24.10 on my rutx50 when netbird was released for this version.
However i could not get the router work well with 5g network, i was not happy with the download speed compare to Rutos.
I think i tested other version of netbird as well but at the end the best combination for me was rutos and netbird 0.50.2.

below are the step i am taking to install netbird after each firmware upgrade.

ssh with root

curl -L -o netbird.0.50.2.ipk "https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/netbird_0.50.2-r1_arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4.ipk"
opkg install netbird.0.50.2.ipk
vi /etc/init.d/netbird

replace

procd_set_param command /usr/bin/netbird

by

procd_set_param command /usr/local/usr/bin/netbird 

if you dont have the same model as me you would need to figure out if this is the right platform.

i hope this helps