We’re trying to play a game over the Internet, but Hamachi isn’t working through my friend’s school’s Internet connection for some reason.
Evolve, Tuungle, and GameRanger are commonly recommended elsewhere but they aren’t compatible with Linux.
It needs to be compatible with both Windows and Linux, but also, a GUI client is preferable to a CLI one.
Port forwarding is not an option for us because this is over his school’s Internet connection.
clients? are you sure you don’t have existing software that already connects to a server? preferably one included in a DE?
Is there a reason you yourself cannot port forward minecraft on your Internet for your friend?
Only the host (1 person) has to port forward, and in this case, it’s you.
You can’t afford $5/mo for a VPS to run OpenVPN and a Minecraft server?
We don’t have a server. We need it to be P2P. The entire reason we need a VPN is because we don’t have a server. We just want to play Minecraft. We used to use Hamachi, but we can no longer do this because my friends live in a college dorm and they block Hamachi.
I’m sure some kids playing Minecraft at school could work that out
Yes, there’s actually two reasons, but I’d rather not talk about them.
For me, free is always preferred over paid, if the option exists.
Right, found badvpn in my repo, pretty sure you’ll find it somewhere in xubuntu. there’s also…
freelan
n2n
peervpn
vpncloud
Honestly I’d set up a dual core digital ocean droplet on the hourly plan and just host it on there.
$0.06 an hour is pretty cheap. Just shut the vm down when you are done to save money. Get a $20 visa gift card from Walmart or something and call it a day with digital ocean this apparently doesn’t work this way.
It’s all a matter of the money value of time. Is it worth more than $5/mo worth of your time setting up a P2P multi-NAT-punching VPN for a bunch of Windows plebes? Get the VPS.
badvpn and vpncloud: I can’t find a download page for a Windows client, just a bunch of repos and source codes. My friends are not smart enough to compile software. They’d rather bug me to switch to Windows so that we can just use Evolve.
freelan: “We will use the command line to generate our certificates.” This is too complicated for my friends too.
n2n seems to be dead: “we currently have no time to further develop n2n (we have put the project on hold until we have time to work at it again)”
peervpn: The setup guide has this in it “ifconfig4 10.8.0.2/24 initpeers node-a.example.com 7000” so I assume this requires the forwarding of ports, and therefore it won’t work for us. Well it definitely won’t work for us since it doesn’t support Windows: “PeerVPN is available for Linux and FreeBSD.”
Just shut the vm down when you are done to save money.
That doesn’t work. They bill you for it even if it’s turned off
Well you can create a snapshot and destroy the vm. Just shutting it down costs you because they keep the ip address, storage and RAM reserved for the VM.
That’s frustrating. I had assumed their hourly rates would be more accommodating for low usage users. Apparently not.
Seems like the hourly rate is kind of a sham then.
You can just make a template and then start it up when you use it.