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[Zerotier](https://zerotier.com https://zerotier.com) is far nicer than all of them, clients (Win, macOS, GNU\Linux, OpenWrt, iOS, Android, NAS) are open-source

[Zerotier](https://zerotier.com https://zerotier.com) is far nicer than all of them, clients (Win, macOS, GNU\Linux, OpenWrt, iOS, Android, NAS) are open-source and the hosted service allows up to 100 devices on one of unlimited networks for free. Because it emulates the ethernet layer, there is no client side configuration required and it can be used for non-IP packets (ex. DHCP). By enabling the default route permission on the client it can also be used as a gateway to the internet through a remote host on the network. All communications are e2e AES-256 with certificate-based access for private networks. Oh, and they also run a public earth network with unlimited members billed as "the global LAN party." It's a really convenient service, and the performance is good enough to be used between private clouds.

mjcl 9y ago
> non-IP packets (ex. DHCP) DHCP is IP/UDP.
- morpheuskafka 9y ago
  True, I was thinking of NetBUEI/IPX/AppleTalk/etc.
yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
I'm really tempted to use this, but I'm a little nervous about relying on a company for this, especially because it doesn't look like they should be profitable on their current offerings.
- ac2u 9y ago
  Correct me if wrong, but I think that aside from their web based portal, everything else is open source. So you could control everything via API. So if they ever did go out of business, you could host it yourself and I'm sure by then an open source web portal would emerge to take the main site's place. (Not to mention that they'd probably just release the web app if they were going out of business). Hope it never comes to that though, I'd imagine their main bread and butter would be larger enterprise licenses.
- morpheuskafka 9y ago
  The good thing is that if they were to go out of business, you wouldn't have made any technical investment since you just plug in the IPs to your applications and go.

mjcl 9y ago

> non-IP packets (ex. DHCP) DHCP is IP/UDP.

morpheuskafka 9y ago
True, I was thinking of NetBUEI/IPX/AppleTalk/etc.

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago

I'm really tempted to use this, but I'm a little nervous about relying on a company for this, especially because it doesn't look like they should be profitable on their current offerings.

ac2u 9y ago
Correct me if wrong, but I think that aside from their web based portal, everything else is open source. So you could control everything via API. So if they ever did go out of business, you could host it yourself and I'm sure by then an open source web portal would emerge to take the main site's place. (Not to mention that they'd probably just release the web app if they were going out of business). Hope it never comes to that though, I'd imagine their main bread and butter would be larger enterprise licenses.
morpheuskafka 9y ago
The good thing is that if they were to go out of business, you wouldn't have made any technical investment since you just plug in the IPs to your applications and go.