Netmaker-OpenWRT

Netmaker is a platform for creating and managing fast, secure, and dynamic virtual overlay networks using WireGuard. This project offers OpenWRT packages for Netmaker.

Installing package

Download the prebuild package and copy it onto your OpenWRT installation, preferably into the /tmp folder.

Then install the ipk package file:

opkg install netmaker_*.ipk

Now start netclient of Netmaker:

/etc/init.d/netclient start

Compiling from Sources

To include Netmaker into your OpenWRT image or to create an .ipk package (equivalent to Debians .deb files), you have to build an OpenWRT image.

Now prepare OpenWRT:

git clone https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
cd openwrt

./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a

To build Netmaker for OpenWRT, you need to have Golang with OpenWRT build envirment. Then, you can insert the Netmaker package using a package feed or add the package manually.

Add package by feed

A feed is the standard way packages are made available to the OpenWRT build system.

Put this line in your feeds list file (e.g. feeds.conf.default)

src-git netmaker http://github.com/sbilly/netmaker-openwrt.git

Update and install the new feed

./scripts/feeds update netmaker
./scripts/feeds install netmaker

Now continue with the building packages section.

Building Packages

Configure packages:

make menuconfig

Now select the appropiate "Target System" and "Target Profile" depending on what target chipset/router you want to build for. Also mark the Netmaker package under Network ---> VPN ---> <*> netmaker.

Now compile/build everything:

make

The images and all *.ipk packages are now inside the bin/ folder, including the netmaker package. You can install the Netmaker .ipk on the target device using opkg install .

For details please check the OpenWRT documentation.

Build bulk packages

For a release, it is useful the build packages at a bulk for multiple targets:

#!/bin/sh

# dump-target-info.pl is used to get all targets configurations:
# https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=scripts/dump-target-info.pl

./scripts/dump-target-info.pl architectures | while read pkgarch target1 rest; do
  echo "CONFIG_TARGET_${target1%/*}=y" > .config
  echo "CONFIG_TARGET_${target1%/*}_${target1#*/}=y" >> .config
  echo "CONFIG_PACKAGE_netmaker=y" >> .config

  # Debug output
  echo "pkgarch: $pkgarch, target1: $target1"

  make defconfig
  make -j4 tools/install
  make -j4 toolchain/install

  # Build package
  make package/netmaker/{clean,compile}

  # Free space (optional)
  rm -rf build_dir/target-*
  rm -rf build_dir/toolchain-*
done

Thanks

• netmaker
• zerotier-openwrt
• openwrt-golang-package-test-feed