825071750290210916 #netmaker

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:02 PM

input limit on the name field im guessing?

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:02 PM

we've run into that after switching default name to pull from hostname...we should probably just trim it automatically

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:02 PM

you can set with "--name" instead

cool-summer-33659

11/11/2021, 6:05 PM

Hi Zanza, Thx for the answer. I found the video in the meantime, but I don‘t get the sense of having a local vpn on top of my local clients which are in the same network. Or do I missed something

quaint-bear-16264

11/11/2021, 6:05 PM

I'm only able to copy 510 characters but the token etc. would be 526 characters long

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

!!!!

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

that's a new problem...

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

very annoying, but...you can base64 decode the key and enter the fields manually

quaint-bear-16264

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

I'm happy to help 😆

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

actually

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:06 PM

i have not tested this but

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:07 PM

you could pre-create the netconfig- file

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:07 PM

i believe it will pull settings from there if it exists

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:08 PM

so you could copy /paste from another machine to /etc/netclient/config/netconfig-, and then change the fields to what is in the token

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:08 PM

but I would try entering all the fields with flags first

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:08 PM

and just do that if the command is still too long

quaint-bear-16264

11/11/2021, 6:08 PM

I just watched the video once but i think you use the "is local" if you cant open ports.

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:09 PM

@User I think 99% of people will not use this. It is basically in the case that you want to have a sort of virtual routing out of a network and into another network, but cannot put a client on the router

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:09 PM

or if you want to site-to-site with only a subset of machines in the local network

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:10 PM

OR...if you are a business running in a large data center, and want to rope off some resources

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 6:10 PM

but most people will have no use for it

cool-summer-33659

11/11/2021, 6:12 PM

@jolly-london-20127 thx. I need to think about it a moment

quaint-bear-16264

11/11/2021, 7:28 PM

Whats the easiest way to get the key? Decoding the token? Maybe it would be a good idea to provide it with the token when you create a new access key? And/or rename the button to "Add new (Access)Token" it's a bit confusing if you are looking for a key (-k) Adding the openWRT as node was not that difficult when you have everything 🙃

./netclient-armv7 join -k (Decoded Token:"key":"SuperDuperSecret"--grpcserver grpc.Server.tld:50051 --network test --daemon=off

And via the Webinterface you can add a cron (System->Scheduled Tasks): */10 * * * * /etc/netclient/netclient checkin -n all

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:30 PM

we used to display the key, but no one ever used it and the display was already very cluttered, so we just took it out

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:30 PM

so now you need to decode the token to get it

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:30 PM

and yes it is a bit of legacy

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:31 PM

we started out by only providing the key, and you had to put in all those values like you just did

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:31 PM

then we added the token, and everyone just used that, and now the key has disappeared from normal usage

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:31 PM

it is very strange that input is limited on openwrt...

jolly-london-20127

11/11/2021, 7:32 PM

maybe we can also display the full join command like you have, with the decoded values