What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.
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@eleceng said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as a VPN to highly secure networks?
ZeroTier isn't the issue. VPN is the issue. As VPNs go ZeroTier is great. But that's as VPNs go. VPNs are just a tool, like a hammer. They can be used to build a house, but was more often they break things.
VPNs are super high risk and should be used with extreme caution.
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@jaredbusch said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
@eleceng said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as a VPN to highly secure networks?
It cannot do it. Because ZeroTier is not a VPN.
What do you mean? It's definitely a VPN.
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@dafyre said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
If you don't have routers that support ZT (Ubiquiti is the only one I'm aware of that does this), then you will need a VM on each network to act as a router between the ZT subnet and the other networks it is connected to.
Only if you want a gateway style situation. There are other ways to do it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
@dafyre said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
If you don't have routers that support ZT (Ubiquiti is the only one I'm aware of that does this), then you will need a VM on each network to act as a router between the ZT subnet and the other networks it is connected to.
Only if you want a gateway style situation. There are other ways to do it.
right, isn't the point of ZT to talk directly to other clients on the ZT network?
Devices like printers are where you run into issues, so setting up a gateway to handle them might be easiest.
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Can zerotier work as a gateway so that all devices on a lan can be accessed? Much like Logmein hamachi in gateway mode?
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@dashrender said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
right, isn't the point of ZT to talk directly to other clients on the ZT network?
Not the point, exactly, but more the "base design" that they started from.
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@eleceng said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
Can zerotier work as a gateway so that all devices on a lan can be accessed? Much like Logmein hamachi in gateway mode?
Yes, exactly.
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@dashrender said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
Devices like printers are where you run into issues, so setting up a gateway to handle them might be easiest.
Yes, completely.
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@dafyre OPNSense has a plugin for Zerotier. Since OPNSense is a fork of PFSense, I'm guessing that PFSense might have a plugin as well.
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@scotth said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
@dafyre OPNSense has a plugin for Zerotier. Since OPNSense is a fork of PFSense, I'm guessing that PFSense might have a plugin as well.
I've used the ZT Plugin for OPNSense, it seemed to work well enough for what I used it for.
