I want to host a small game server for friends and myself in my home but doesn’t want to open up the firewall. Any tunneling solutions supports UDP? Thnaks.

  • WIPocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Can confirm, very easy to setup clients. And since its not a VPN but a VLAN, you wont run into problems connecting between different clients.

    This is pretty much open-source Hamachi.

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      For non tech savy people, is ZeroTier easier to config than Tailscale? I tried Tailscale and everyone needs a account before start playing, which can be a fraction.

      • WIPocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Im not sure how difficult it is to setup a Tailscale client, honestly.

        The Zerotier setup is just installing and joining a network by an id. The Windows version has a bit of a GUI, where you have to right-click on a status bar icon, click Join network, paste in the id and join. The Linux version of the client has a cli, which is imho even better, as you can just send them a whole command to copy into the terminal.

        I admin a Zerotier network for a bunch of kids that wanna play Minecraft, and they havent had many problems setting up.

        There is a bunch of information on self-hosting the whole system, but Ive honestly never tried any of that. It was just nice that this was “just the open-source LogMeIn Hamachi with a superior implementation of everything”.