# Tailscale on Rugged SOM

**URL:** <https://forum.botblox.org/t/tailscale-on-rugged-som/473>\
**Category:** BotBlox Software\
**Tags:** switchblox-rugged, rugged-som\
**Created:** [August 23, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/tailscale-on-rugged-som/473 "2025-08-23T15:11:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chad\_Lancaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@Chad\_Lancaster](https://forum.botblox.org/u/Chad_Lancaster)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/tailscale-on-rugged-som/473/1 "2025-08-23T15:11:56Z")

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Do you think Tailscale would run on a rugged som?

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**Author:** ![josh\_elijah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.botblox.org/josh_elijah/32/568_2.png) [@josh\_elijah](https://forum.botblox.org/u/josh_elijah)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/tailscale-on-rugged-som/473/2 "2025-08-24T21:29:14Z")

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Yep. Rugged SOM runs OpenWRT and OpenWRT supports Tailscale

> **[\[OpenWrt Wiki\] Tailscale](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start)**

You’ll just need to download it and install the package.

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**Author:** ![Chad\_Lancaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@Chad\_Lancaster](https://forum.botblox.org/u/Chad_Lancaster)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/tailscale-on-rugged-som/473/3 "2026-03-20T01:13:51Z")

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When I run the opkg update I just get a failed to download package list error. any suggestions?