How to use Zerotier as a VPN for Android

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I have a windows 10 PC that’s always on and I’d like to use Zerotier as a personal VPN solution for my smartphone when I’m away, I’ve installed ZT on both devices, enabled bridging in the web for the Windows PC, set a route of 0.0.0.0/0 to “ZT IP of Windows PC” and ticked route traffic on android

I’ve also created a bridge on Windows between my NIC and the ZT virtual adaptor. I’ve made some progress as now when I enable ZT on android I get no internet connection, so it’s at least “Trying” to work, but I can find no straightforward guide for this on here or the forum and the atlassian seems to be down, please could someone assist, thanks

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Have you set up an exit node as mentioned here https://docs.zerotier.com/exitnode/
Not sure this works on windows as they’re linux commands.

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Make the selected node an exit node. There’s a guide for that on the ZT website

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Windows can’t do routing by default or masquerating (NAT). Since you made bridge between LAN on windows and ZT interface try to assign IP from LAN range on ZT network for android and make 0.0.0.0 be ip of router, not windows machine…

Some more detailes about IPs and gateways you have might be nice…

If you"re able to get mikrotik with ARM chip like mikrotik ax2 or ax3 since they support zerotier… But this will also insert one more thing in play to configure…

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I don’t, not beyond the bridge, the issue is I’ve no idea how to do similar to those commands in windows

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I could only find the Linux one, is there a Windows guide for exit node?

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Oh that’s interesting, my mikrotik had the arm AL32400 I wonder if it supports it

So settings are, for LAN with windows PC, gateway is 192.168.1.251

Windows PC is 192.168.1.50, zerotier IP is 10.244.126.254

In ZT management I set this as bridge and a route of

0.0.0.0 via 10.244.126.254

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I suggest a linux virtual machine, the simplest set up would be virtualbox running Ubuntu server.

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Mikrotik 7.1.1 is first version with support. If you have higher download zip with packages for it and upload zerotier to your router…

Did you make bridge in network by selecting lan and zt interface? If so try to set in zerotier network management ip like 192.168.1.51 to phone. Might be needed to add routes in zerotier…

Add routes 192.168.1.0/24… and no via. This way you added your lan range so it can be assigned to devices…

Watch out, I’ve lost mine existing LAN in zerotier after adding new LAN… Aded it back an now I have two LAN in managed routes…

Try to ping phone from router. If it works set zerotier default to your router…