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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @wrx7m
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      @wrx7m said:

      I need a distraction from other things I am working on today and I was thinking about trying to stand up a zero tier controller in a VM. Which linux distro should I use?

      CentOS, Suse Leap and Ubuntu would be my suggestions.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @wrx7m
        last edited by

        @wrx7m said:

        I want something as bare bones as possible, with as little setup as possible to get to the actual task of zerotier installation and config.

        All three that I mentioned are extremely lean by default.

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        • wrx7mW
          wrx7m @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller Well I have worked with CentOS and Ubuntu before but not Suse Leap. Hmm. I might try it out.

          And when I say worked with, I mean I have setup things like cacti, nagios, openvpn and some others for testing on various distros and versions. Other than that I don't know nearly enough about linux.

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          • stacksofplatesS
            stacksofplates @wrx7m
            last edited by

            @wrx7m said:

            I need a distraction from other things I am working on today and I was thinking about trying to stand up a zero tier controller in a VM. Which linux distro should I use?

            I'm using CentOS 7

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @wrx7m
              last edited by

              @wrx7m If you can set up things like Cacti, Nagios, and OpenVPN, you should be able to get ZeroTier up and going without too much of a problem. 🙂

              Are you going to build your own controller, or use their hosted one (free for up to 10 devices) ?

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates
                last edited by

                It's really easy to set up and use. It uses sqlite so backups are really easy. You can even just tar the /var/lib/zerotier-one folder.

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                • wrx7mW
                  wrx7m @dafyre
                  last edited by wrx7m

                  @dafyre I want to build my own controller. That is the point of the "project" 😛

                  I have tested the hosted one and like the concept. Since the controller can also run the client, can I set it up as a gateway?

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates @wrx7m
                    last edited by stacksofplates

                    @wrx7m said:

                    @dafyre I want to build my own controller. That is the point of the "project" 😛

                    I have tested the hosted one and like the concept. Since the controller can also run the client, can I set it up as a gateway?

                    You can. Just enable IP forwarding and add your routes.

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                    • wrx7mW
                      wrx7m @stacksofplates
                      last edited by

                      @johnhooks Would tarring the folder be a sufficient backup for the config?

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                      • quicky2gQ
                        quicky2g @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @wrx7m said:

                        I need a distraction from other things I am working on today and I was thinking about trying to stand up a zero tier controller in a VM. Which linux distro should I use?

                        CentOS, Suse Leap and Ubuntu would be my suggestions.

                        Wasn't too bad on Ubuntu server:

                        Dependencies for build

                        sudo apt-get install git make gcc g++ libsqlite3-dev
                        

                        For API and script stuff

                        sudo apt-get install curl php5-cli php5-curl
                        

                        Install

                        git clone https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne.git
                        cd ZeroTierOne
                        make ZT_ENABLE_NETWORK_CONTROLLER=1 installer
                        sudo ./ZeroTierOneInstaller-linux-x64-1_1_2
                        sudo service zerotier-one restart
                        
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                        • stacksofplatesS
                          stacksofplates @wrx7m
                          last edited by

                          @wrx7m said:

                          @johnhooks Would tarring the folder be a sufficient backup for the config?

                          Yup. At least I haven't had any issues doing it. I've tested it out a few times.

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                          • wrx7mW
                            wrx7m
                            last edited by

                            I decided to go with Ubuntu mostly because of @quicky2g posting the screen captures 😉

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                            • quicky2gQ
                              quicky2g @wrx7m
                              last edited by

                              @wrx7m said:

                              I decided to go with Ubuntu mostly because of @quicky2g posting the screen captures 😉

                              Happy to help! I only tried doing the server because of @dafyre and his awesome scripts!

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                              • wrx7mW
                                wrx7m
                                last edited by wrx7m

                                Should I create a new thread for this? Got through the installation and when I ran zerotier-cli /controller to verify installation, I got "missing authentication token and authtoken.secret not found (or readable) in /var/lib/zerotier-one". I tried restarting the zerotier service and also a full reboot of the ubuntu server.

                                EDIT: I did check the contents of the aforementioned directory and did see the authtoken.secret file but not sure what the other would be if it weren't the same thing...

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Yeah, if you have a question, make a new thread and mark as a question, too.

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates @wrx7m
                                    last edited by

                                    @wrx7m said:

                                    Should I create a new thread for this? Got through the installation and when I ran zerotier-cli /controller to verify installation, I got "missing authentication token and authtoken.secret not found (or readable) in /var/lib/zerotier-one". I tried restarting the zerotier service and also a full reboot of the ubuntu server.

                                    EDIT: I did check the contents of the aforementioned directory and did see the authtoken.secret file but not sure what the other would be if it weren't the same thing...

                                    did you run as sudo?

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                                    • quicky2gQ
                                      quicky2g @wrx7m
                                      last edited by

                                      @wrx7m said:

                                      Should I create a new thread for this? Got through the installation and when I ran zerotier-cli /controller to verify installation, I got "missing authentication token and authtoken.secret not found (or readable) in /var/lib/zerotier-one". I tried restarting the zerotier service and also a full reboot of the ubuntu server.

                                      EDIT: I did check the contents of the aforementioned directory and did see the authtoken.secret file but not sure what the other would be if it weren't the same thing...

                                      This should do the trick:

                                      sudo zerotier-cli /controller
                                      
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                                      • wrx7mW
                                        wrx7m @stacksofplates
                                        last edited by wrx7m

                                        @johnhooks said:

                                        @wrx7m said:

                                        Should I create a new thread for this? Got through the installation and when I ran zerotier-cli /controller to verify installation, I got "missing authentication token and authtoken.secret not found (or readable) in /var/lib/zerotier-one". I tried restarting the zerotier service and also a full reboot of the ubuntu server.

                                        EDIT: I did check the contents of the aforementioned directory and did see the authtoken.secret file but not sure what the other would be if it weren't the same thing...

                                        did you run as sudo?

                                        Son of a ... You got me.

                                        That was it.

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                                        • wrx7mW
                                          wrx7m @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller Sorry... Will do next time.

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                                          • dafyreD
                                            dafyre
                                            last edited by

                                            Holy Necroposting Batman!

                                            I found this topic referenced in another forum, and alas, my server that held the old code for this has long since crashed for reasons we're all familiar with.

                                            In that same post, however, another coder has written a Python script to handle this...

                                            https://github.com/LFlare/zerotiernc

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