Zerotier Tutorial: Delivering the Capabilities of VPN, SDN, and SD-WAN via an

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How to create a local LAN to play video games or securely administer servers. Better than Hamachi

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#2

Just got done setting this up and it’s way better than running openvpn or tor nodes.

There’s a dockerized version too

So one can secure their compute nodes by setup a software defined network with

docker run \
  -d \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --name zerotier-one \
  --device /dev/net/tun \
  --net host \
  --cap-add NET_ADMIN \
  --cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
  -v /var/lib/zerotier-one:/var/lib/zerotier-one \
  henrist/zerotier-one

Then configuring docker to bind on the zerotier network interface.

Got to try this out with docker-machine, hass.io, and docker dyndns to see if one can build a compute cloud via automation.

yes there’s a reason for this craziness

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Almost forgot, killer feature that’s going to be developed:

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Thanks for this post. I hadn’t heard of zerotier before. I just finished creating an owncloud server reachable only via private zerotier network stored on a synology NAS using a mounted encfs file system.

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smashing! Love to hear the results of how well it works out for you.

Be sure to enable either upnp (not ideal but ok for most networks) or keep port 9993/udp open on the network.

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For those who try to use Zerotier in a Virtualbox VM be aware that you’ll experience very slow network speeds on the Zerotier interface if you use NAT. This is the default for a Vagrant VM. Switch to bridged and you will achieve high speeds.

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Good to know. Been using the vxlan networks with docker and getting some good results. Should do a benchmark at some time in the near future.