ZTCLI

ZTCLI (ZeroTier CLI) is a minimal CLI that combines ZeroTier Central and ZeroTierOne Service essential functionality. This tool allows for seamless LAN gaming and ZeroTier-hosted free plan network manipulation.

Prerequisites

ZTCLI is based on ZeroTier products: ZeroTier Central and ZeroTierOne Service. (The first is a free network hosting platform with a dashboard and pricing plans, the latter is the agent that acts as a network switch.) Since that, you need to register a ZeroTier account and create an API token for the ZeroTier Central. You also need to install the agent (zerotier-cli) to connect to the network.

VLAN Setup

First, download the ZTCLI binary. Open the directory with the downloaded binary via terminal.

Using Central API

Generate an API token for your ZeroTier Central account and bind the evironment varibale named ZTC_API_TOKEN to it like so:

ZTC_API_TOKEN="<central-api-token>"

Then create a network via ZeroTier Central API as follows:

./ztcli.exe central network create --name="<name>" --private 

This would print out the brand new network short description with the ID. Use this ID to connect to the network on your machines like this:

./ztcli.exe one network post --id="<nwid>"

After that you need to authorize all the members on the network as in the line below:

./ztcli.exe central network update --id="<nwid>" --authorize-all

Using Self-hosted Controller

First, create a network on the controller to host and give it a name like this:

./ztcli.exe one controller network post --name="<name>"

It should return the network ID. Then join the network created from other nodes as follows:

./ztcli.exe one network post --id="<nwid>"

After that, the addresses of the nodes can be viewed by execution of the line below on the controller hosting the network:

./ztcli.exe one controller member list --network-id="<nwid>"

Then, as with the Central API, the network members should be authorized by the controller like so:

./ztcli.exe one controller network post --id="<nwid>" --authorize-all

Check Nodes Connection

You can now list the networks joined:

./ztcli.exe one network list

It would list all the networks your node has joined to about and their addresses. But more importantly it would list addresses assigned to your node, that other nodes can resolve it through. Now check the peer resolvability as in the following script, by running it on another node on your network:

ping "<your-assigned-address>"

If the ping went well, congratulations! You now have a VLAN, to play with your friends for example.

Future

VPN Setup

ZeroTier can be used to setup a VPN Exit Node, but the process involves much CURLing and typing long one-liners. ZTCLI will make this procedure more intuitive and straight forward.

Licencing

This project is distributed under the MIT open source licence.