Feature Request- Add Zerotier Multipath Settings to RouterOS

Mikrotik devs,

Please for the love of God, add this to the roadmap if it is not already on said roadmap.

It could be added in the ZT window, or only accessible via CLI, or just a window that pops up to let us edit the local.conf file for zerotier.

This would allow so many fast fail over options for zerotier that I would like to be able to use on RouterOS like I am able to do on my servers and computers.

Please please please. If routerOS was open source, I would dedicate my personal time and resources to help but alas I must gravel at your feet. So here I am begging you for this. And buying hundreds of RB5009s and CCR2116s to help keep the company going. :wink:

PS - thank you for recently updating zerotier to 1.14.0.

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for those of not in the know, can you describe what zerotier mulitipath would let you do… in basic terms.

Bonding WAN connections is one setting allowed by ZeroTier’s “multipath” support. They have a “balance-aware” setting that may be the default – but we don’t know & without controls for multi path, you’re can’t optimize known link inbalances. You need the access to ZeroTier’s configuration file.

@anav, you asked a related question, “EMULATING peplink BONDING with RoS”, which also highlights another long stand grip:
See http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/emulating-peplink-bonding-with-ros/179605/1

So this one is a big +1 from me. We have any entirely duplicate WinBox , with lot of attention to detail – but somehow no-one at Mikrotik can find the time to wrap the ZT config as commands? So peplink sometime gets my [customers] money, which doesn’t have ZeroTier but has controls for asymmetric WAN bonding at 3x the price.

Hi ammo, use Elmers Glue !!

But what does that have to do with ops comment, so many fast fail over options???

The actual ZeroTeir config file allow a bunch of mode and control over how outbound tunnel are established. Bonding is just one, and that’s the problem. See https://docs.zerotier.com/multipath/.

But before @Larse chimes in, I’d add even the more simple “Low Bandwidth Mode” option - which is bool / “checkbox” – is not exposed either, which similarly useful since ZT can be chatty. See https://docs.zerotier.com/lbm .

Why? Because of Mikrotik’s core principle that users don’t never directly edit config files. I’m fine with that… But like the OP, then they need to wire up the UI/CLI to the config file. I suspect the task would take under a day. Yet how many-years were spend on WinBox4 - to get same options? Meanwhile, a Mikrotik router is compelling offering to enable a ZT deployment, which is the situation I think OP finds himself, but the lack of controls over ZT tunnel really does limit its usefulness beyond more simple remote access cases.

sounds like a discord discussion to be had, but first I have to read up much more on zerotier.

Is there any news about feature implementation?

bump this thread

lack of multipath settings for ZeroTier is critical in multi-wan setups

Would love multipath bonding in ZT on mikrotik.