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I've used zerotier for a good 5-7 years now, and can honestly say it's pretty great. I use mostly for personal stuff, some business, mostly letting folks into

I've used zerotier for a good 5-7 years now, and can honestly say it's pretty great. I use mostly for personal stuff, some business, mostly letting folks into my house to hit my storage because it's perpetual, and supports pretty much every device. I use this with rpi's as well with quad/octal serial cables as term servers with customers too. This includes my synology filers, android, ios, pi, win, lin, mac, ddwrt, and tons more, but this is at least what I've used it with so far. I saw Slack's Nebula release, and thought "oh, they just recreated zerotier", and recently someone told me of Tailscale much the same. Now Cloudflare seems to be doing like for their Quick Tunnels and treating it with the buzzword zero-trust to get enterprise attention. Zero-tier is and has been way ahead of the game for a long time. I'm a bit surprised someone hasn't just acquired them by now. So many of the "enterprise" sd-wan and zero-tier solutions suck out there, but traditional infrastructure folks don't understand how this overlay networking works to even consider it. Their loss, but obviously Slack and Cloudflare do.

windexh8er 5y ago
Same boat here. I've turned so many friends on to software defined overlay networks over the years and most can't understand how ZeroTier is free for everything you get. I use both Tailscale and ZeroTier for different purposes. With ZeroTier L2 bridging comes at less of a cost than with ZeroTier. I honestly wish Tailscale has a bit more flexibility and functionality in their routing capabilities. Both are fantastic though and I highly recommend both! I'm also surprised that ZeroTier hasn't been acquired. I was working for a prominent network security vendor about 6 years ago and mentioned to some higher level product folks that ZeroTier is basically "next-gen VPN" and how it would be a fantastic addition to our product suite. I remember getting snide comments about we already did what ZeroTier was solving for. However DM-VPN type implementations aren't remotely like how ZeroTier solved for and now I think the light bulb has likely lit up for those folks given how all the Zero Trust / Perimeterless / SASE / SD-WAN have taken off. Totally agree that most of the "enterprise" solutions are just garbage built on OpenVPN or overly rigid IPsec implementations with poor performance and even worse functionality.

windexh8er 5y ago

Same boat here. I've turned so many friends on to software defined overlay networks over the years and most can't understand how ZeroTier is free for everything you get. I use both Tailscale and ZeroTier for different purposes. With ZeroTier L2 bridging comes at less of a cost than with ZeroTier. I honestly wish Tailscale has a bit more flexibility and functionality in their routing capabilities. Both are fantastic though and I highly recommend both! I'm also surprised that ZeroTier hasn't been acquired. I was working for a prominent network security vendor about 6 years ago and mentioned to some higher level product folks that ZeroTier is basically "next-gen VPN" and how it would be a fantastic addition to our product suite. I remember getting snide comments about we already did what ZeroTier was solving for. However DM-VPN type implementations aren't remotely like how ZeroTier solved for and now I think the light bulb has likely lit up for those folks given how all the Zero Trust / Perimeterless / SASE / SD-WAN have taken off. Totally agree that most of the "enterprise" solutions are just garbage built on OpenVPN or overly rigid IPsec implementations with poor performance and even worse functionality.