Join and leave known networks by device name

Feature Requests
1

Hello.

My admin workstation is authorized on multiple networks. However, it is not desirable to be online in all of them all the times - I should join the specific network only when requested by a client.

This scenario is virtually impossible to fulfill currently when I have to use network IDs on Linux.

I think the ideal solution would be to join known networks by device name as specified in my local devicemap file. Something like:

zerotier-cli join --devicemap evilcorp

Ability to join network by network name would help too, but it’s not perfect as it can change without my prior knowledge.

2

Something more friendly is needed yeah. I’d probably make some shell wrapper for now?

Side note: There is a bash completion thing but you have to place it in your system yourself. The installer doesn’t do it. I don’t remember where the file goes. This helps with typing those long network ids.

3

I was using this bash-completion script and it is good, it helps.
But now, when I have 15-20 networks that I join and leave on regular basis, these long randomly looking thingies don’t tell me anything and I have to look them up it devicemap anyways.

As I said - for me devicemap should be the source as I have a full control over it. Network names, as seen on the Controller, can change anytime and that can be problematic. And I guess it would be much easier to put up a script that uses devicemap.

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You could use bash aliases

alias ztjoin-evilcorp=sudo zerotier-cli join $EvilCorpNetworkID
alias ztleave-evilcorp=sudo zerotier-cli leave $EvilCorpNetworkID
alias ztjoin-othercorp=sudo zerotier-cli join $OtherCorpNetworkID
alias ztleave-othercorp=sudo zerotier-cli leave $OtherCorpNetworkID
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5

Good idea, thanks! I will do that for now.

6

For future reference here is how I got it working on Ubuntu with default shell.

Add this to ~/.bashrc file:

if [ -f $HOME/.aliases-zt ]; then
    source $HOME/.aliases-zt
fi

Add this to ~/.aliases-zt file:

alias ztjoin-evilcorp='sudo zerotier-cli join XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
alias ztleave-evilcorp='sudo zerotier-cli leave XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'

alias ztjoin-othercorp='sudo zerotier-cli join YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'
alias ztleave-othercorp='sudo zerotier-cli leave YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'