binaries for low-end devices

[tobias-carlbom]

thanks for this project, its awesome!

i am managing low-end teltonika devices which runs RutOS (fork of openwrt). sadly the routers only has around 3-4MB storage.

it would be super useful to be able to install newt on these devices. but i noticed that the binaries are around 12MB,

thanks!

[oschwartz10612]

Ahh yeah that is unfortunate. One of the downsides of go is the large binary size due to the static compile. We are also packaging a full netstack into the binary.

I tried upx but was only able to get it down to 8 megs or so which is still too big.

Important request though I will leave this for the future!

[tobias-carlbom]

Oh I see! That explains a lot.

Perhaps one way would be to use Basic Wireguard instead. Although, as I understand, I cannot add targets on LAN subnet, only wg subnet. Is that correct? :)

[oschwartz10612]

Oh yeah good idea I should have suggested that haha!

You can add targets from your LAN - you just have to NAT them on the WG device. So you would create a NAT from your WG interface - lets say 100.90.128.12:3456 - to your target at - lets say 192.168.1.34:443. Essential Traefik from the cloud can reach anything in the /29 wg network that is created for the target.