Can't connect Mikrotik ARM device

[vdibenedetto70]

Hello all,
When trying to add a mikrotik ARM router to my network, I had a weird problem:

when adding interface i Get ACCESS_DENIED status, that’s normal, since my is a private network, I have to authorize members, but on the zerotier site administrator interface I can’t find my newly added node.

[admin@192.168.2.1] > zerotier/interface/print
# NAME       MAC-ADDRESS        NETWORK           STATUS       
0 zt-VinxDB  6A:84:D4:xx:xx:xx  632ea290xxxxxxxx  ACCESS_DENIED

So I temporally changed my network in public mode, and immediately my device connected.

[admin@192.168.2.1] > zerotier/interface/print
#   NAME       MAC-ADDRESS        NETWORK           NETWORK-NAME  STATUS
0 R zt-VinxDB  6A:84:D4:xx:xx:xx  632ea29085xxxxxx  VinxDB        OK

I got an IP Address

[admin@192.168.2.1] > ip address print where interface=zt-VinxDB 
#   ADDRESS         NETWORK      INTERFACE
3 D 10.147.17.6/24  10.147.17.0  zt-VinxDB

routes

[admin@192.168.2.1] > ip route print
#     DST-ADDRESS      GATEWAY      DISTANCE
  DAc 10.147.17.0/24   zt-VinxDB           0
  DAv 192.168.1.0/24   10.147.17.1         1

I can even ping other nodes and also networks behind them

[mtkadmin@192.168.2.1] > ping 10.147.17.1
SEQ HOST           SIZE TTL   TIME
  0 10.147.17.1      56  64   61ms672us 
  1 10.147.17.1      56  64   68ms262us 
  2 10.147.17.1      56  64   60ms126us 

[mtkadmin@Hap-AC2] > ping 192.168.1.1 
SEQ HOST            SIZE TTL  TIME     
  0 192.168.1.1       56  64  64ms72us  
  1 192.168.1.1       56  64  56ms933us 
  2 192.168.1.1       56  64  56ms257us

same thing from the other node, I can ping both zt and lan ip address

[admin@192.168.1.1] > ping 10.147.17.6
SEQ HOST            SIZE TTL    TIME  
  0 10.147.17.6       56  64    73ms362us 
  1 10.147.17.6       56  64    100ms719us
  2 10.147.17.6       56  64    67ms362us 

[admin@192.168.1.1] > ping 192.168.2.1
SEQ HOST            SIZE TTL    TIME  
  0 192.168.2.1       56  64    72ms953us   
  1 192.168.2.1       56  64    63ms597us 
  2 192.168.2.1       56  64    143ms264us

But in the admin interface I still can’t see my node.

How can I resolve this?

I already tried to remove and rejoin node, but still behave the same.

the CHR you can see in the screenshot, is a virtual machine I joined for test, to be shure the problem is related to my mikrotik router and not a general issue.

[l0crian]

I’m not sure if you solved this, but in case others find your thread. Under your nodes, there’s a way to manually add a node. I’ve had what is happening to you a couple of times, and doing this usually helps. Just put the node address that isn’t popping up in the “Manually Add Member” box and click “Add New Member”.

[vdibenedetto70]

The problem is still going.
I know i could manually add a member, but I cannot find my client node-id.
with windows or linux client is easy, even with microtik container client. but with the client embedded in routeros I can’t find the information.

[l0crian]

Here’s a couple ways to find the node-id:

GUI

Go to ZeroTier->Instance
Click on the configured instance
The first 10 digits of the identity is the node-id

CLI

Type /zerotier/print
There will be a very long identity string, again the first 10 digits of that is the node-id

Hopefully that helps.

[vdibenedetto70]

[admin@192.168.2.1] > /zerotier/print
Flags: R - ONLINE
Columns: NAME, PORT
#   NAME  PORT
;;; ZeroTier Central controller - https://my.zerotier.com/

The CLI command gave me an empty string, but found it by the GUI.

and now I can see my device among members

Thanks for your support.

[l0crian]

No problem, glad you got it working!