diff --git a/netconf-service/README.txt b/netconf-service/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6ec7eebac --- /dev/null +++ b/netconf-service/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +This is the netconf service, which can be built and run by placing it in the +services.d subfolder of the ZeroTier One home directory. + +Users probably won't be interested in this. It's for running a "netconf +master," which handles certificate issuing, static IP assignment, and other +things for a network. The ZeroTier address of the netconf master forms the +first 40 bits of a hexadecimal network ID, permitting the master to be +located and queried. + +Masters currently don't support multi-homing, but they can easily be made +fault tolerant via fail-over. If the master node goes down, it can be +started elsewhere with the same ZT1 identity. (The underlying database would +also have to be fault tolerant.) + +For this to work it requires a MySQL backend with a properly structured +database.