ZeroTier on Unifi Dream Machine

wellbein · April 7, 2022, 5:56pm

Hello Everybody,
i found a method to connect Unifi Dream Machines to ZeroTier Network.
i didn’t tested if it survive to a reboot or firmware upgrade but it works like a charm.
I discovered ZeroTier very recently and I am really amazed.

look at this method ; https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/bc54b90f7701a4ac62d7cc300f89407d0f7bbb83/zerotier-one

occamsrazor · April 19, 2022, 10:05pm

That’s interesting, wonder if it would work on a Cloud Key Gen2+ as well. Does it just run as a client to give access to the UDM itself? Or can it work as an edge device routing the ZeroTier network to all clients on the LAN of the UDM?

wellbein · April 20, 2022, 5:50pm

i don’t know for cloudkey.
It works like a charm has edge device, routing between difference LANs

wellbein · June 9, 2022, 6:08pm

I can confirm that it survive to firmware upgrade,
i only have to restart it manually :

podman start zerotier-one

life is beautifull

dmkjr · November 8, 2022, 7:25pm

@wellbein Could you not script the container to start using a crontab job or something?

wellbein · November 9, 2022, 9:00pm

hi,
i didn’t try.
if you do it, i m interested

Ganesh_AT · December 14, 2022, 5:22pm

If you install the ‘on-boot-script’ that is expected to be the first to be installed in unifi-os-utilities (which the gist uses), then it gets automatically restarted:

github.com

unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/blob/main/on-boot-script/README.md

# UDM / UDMPro Boot Script

## Features

1. Allows you to run a shell script at S95 anytime your UDM starts / reboots
1. Persists through reboot and **firmware updates**! It is able to do this because Ubiquiti caches all debian package installs on the UDM in /mnt/data, then re-installs them on reset of unifi-os container.

## Compatibility

1. Should work on any UDM/UDMPro after 1.6.3
2. Tested and confirmed on 1.6.6, 1.7.0, 1.7.2rc4, 1.7.3rc1, 1.8.0rc7, 1.8.0+

### Upgrade from earlier way

* As long as you didn't change the filenames, installing the deb package is all you need to do.  If you want to clean up beforehand anyways....

    ```bash
    rm /etc/init.d/udm.sh
    systemctl disable udmboot
    rm /etc/systemd/system/udmboot.service

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harvey · January 19, 2023, 7:10pm

Could you elaborate on how this works in relation to routing? I have an existing configuration with UDMPs at my two houses and zeroTier linking the two using a pair of Pi4s. The Pi4’s act as gateways and each of the UDMPs has a static route to the remote network that specifies the Pi4 as the gateway.

I’m not clear on how I would configure the zeroTier component in unifios-utilities to behave in the same way. It would appear to be a matter of routes, but not clear where they need to be configured. Something like the UDMP zeroTier address for the remote UDMP?