MikroTik published an official ZeroTier package for MikroTik routers. But not all Routers support
Devices which only support SwOS (SwitchOS) do not support ZeroTier. You need a device running RouterOS.
But even among the RouterOS devices, not all devices support ZeroTier. The first requirement is that you are running a recent version of RouterOS such as RouterOS 7.4.1
At the time of writing this post (2022-08-22
), only devices with the ARM
and ARM64
architecture support ZeroTier. For other devices, you can’t even download the package. This include CHR (cloud hosted router) running on x86
or x86_64
for which ZeroTier is currently not available.
More specifically, for RouterOS version 7.4.1
and 7.5beta11
, neither x86/x86_64
nor the SMIPS
/MMIPS
/MIPSBE
or Tile
architecture support ZeroTier.
Before buying a device or commiting to ZeroTier, download the Extra packages
for your architecture from the MikroTik download page and check if there’s a zerotier-....npk
in the ZIP archive. If it isn’t available there, you currently can’t use ZeroTier on that device – but possibly it will be supported in the future.