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Feasibility of running ZeroTier in a fully offline LAN?
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Description
Hi! I’m trying to use ZeroTier in a completely offline LAN, but I’ve run into some issues.
I tried:
- Using a moon (generating a moon file pointing to node A)
- Using a planet (generated from
node/World.hpp, pointing to node A)
On node A, I run the controller, create a network, and join it. The controller shows node A and I can authorize it successfully. However, when I run zerotier-cli info on node A, the status is always:
200 info xxx 1.14.1 OFFLINE
When I configure node B to join the same network, it also fails to connect to the planet (node A), and I don’t see its join request in the controller.
I’ve read #610, and it seems ZeroTier should already support this kind of setup, but I haven’t been able to get it working.
Does ZeroTier require Internet connectivity to establish links, or am I missing something?
Any experience or hints would be greatly appreciated!
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