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.

  • DetachablePianist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    You might try ZeroTier. You’ll each need a tiny client app, but its super easy to install and setup, and extremely secure. Free to use with up to 25 devices.

    • WIPocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 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
        1·
        8 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
          1·
          8 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”.