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On Saturday 05 Dec 2015 14:31:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 14:13:00 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Neil, could you please spare a couple of words to explain how the |
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> > zerotier architecture works? |
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> I can do it in one word - magic! |
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:-) |
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> It's basically a P2P VPN. You set up a network on the controller and then |
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> join it from various machines. Those machines register with the network |
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> controller, and receive an IP address from it, but the actual |
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> communication is direct between the computers. So your data is private |
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> and if both computers are on the same LAN, you still get full LAN speed |
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> between them. |
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> It use a TUN/TAP interface, for example on this laptop: |
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> zt0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 2800 |
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> inet 10.252.252.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.252.252.255 |
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> ether 46:96:8c:9c:02:e1 txqueuelen 500 (Ethernet) |
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So is this a userspace tunnel implementation, with the controller playing the |
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role of a remote VPN gateway? Like OpenVPN? What encryption does it use? |
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> So I can connect to 10.252.252.6 from any computer on my zerotier |
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> network, but you cannot. You may even have the same IP address for one of |
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> the computers on your network. |
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> It's open source and if you want optimum security, or want to run a |
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> network of more than 10 computers without paying a fee, you can run your |
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> own controller. |
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Wouldn't IPSec be more preferable? I'm trying to understand the benefit/need |
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for yet another tunneling solution. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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