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Tutorials and FAQs / Re: Need help changing startup behavior of a plugin

« on: February 05, 2020, 07:55:28 pm »

I don't mean to sound insulting or anything, but I disagree.  Most companies (In my experience), would never open up their infrastructure (SDWAN,DMVPN, etc) to other companies. Partner or not.  It would be a controlled portal of sorts.  There is just too much liability there.

Unless I just do not understand their licensing as well as i think I do, it would be a perfectly viable solution for any company that would like to have a very easy multi-wan, SDWAN solution. This would scale for free up to 100 routers, and then shift to a paid solution. Which in my opinion, is still very reasonable.

Am I not understanding your point, or the present licensing model?

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Tutorials and FAQs / Re: Need help changing startup behavior of a plugin

« on: February 05, 2020, 04:13:28 pm »

It may be an unfortunate truth, but I can say that from personal experience, it seems that there may be a decline because people don't understand enough to make it work in a routed environment.  I can tell you that after trial and error, it works very well as a SDWAN solution, and its pretty much plug and play once its sorted.  Personally, i feel that if there was better understanding of zerotier, it would become very popular, very fast.

On that note, when and if i get some spare time, I may do a brain dump of everything I have learned and implemented. As it may be a good preservation piece to drive a bit more adoption and awareness

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Tutorials and FAQs / Re: Need help changing startup behavior of a plugin

« on: February 03, 2020, 05:10:43 pm »

Thank you for this information. Although it is not what i wanted to hear

I expected that this was the case. It's too bad really, because i feel that zerotier is a great product and works phenomenal as a SDWAN once configured correctly. Presently, this will not sway me from rolling with a single router/multi-wan configuration. It would just be nice to run HA OPNSense routers as well.

I guess my only real concern is whether or not we will have a zerotier plugin in the future (If the author is no longer participating).

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Tutorials and FAQs / Need help changing startup behavior of a plugin

« on: January 31, 2020, 06:35:14 pm »

Hello,

New to the forums and I hope that I am posting in the correct place.  Below is the rundown of my present configuration and dilema:

I have been using zerotier successfully for 3-4 months now on a single router multi-WAN configuration.  My final step is to run a HA router configuration w/ zerotier.  As of present, i have HA working perfectly, but i cannot figure out how to get zerotier to work with it.

Here is what works:
Both HA nodes can connect to the zerotier network. If I IP them differently, I can simply change routes in my.zerotier to manualy select which router i want to route traffic to. Though this is not sufficient for HA standards. It must be able to recover on its own.

In order to do this seamlessly, I have created a CARP address and associated it to the zerotier interface.  This works!   BUT, it only works if I go into zerotier and restart the plugin (or disconnect and reconnect) after a fresh boot.  This tells me that I need to have the zerotier plugin start VERY last after boot. Long after the CARP VIP comes up. OR, at least have something that restarts the zerotier plugin sometime after a fresh boot.

If I am going about this all wrong, please feel free to pitch another direction. This is the best approach that I have come up with over that last few weeks of troubleshooting.

thanks!