What is the best open source Hamachi alternative?

Posted by Holmes on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:57PM
from the self-post dept.

Have tried tinc, OpenVPN, SocialVPN and few others. None seem to have the NAT traversal abilities of Hamachi. Is Hamachi still the best?

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Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? by snoonan on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:38PM (#6486188)

I'm not sure of the others, but it should work fine in OpenVPN. The configuration for it documented, if a little bit of work to get going. I've been using it for many years, having switched from Hamachi back in 2007 or so.

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Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? by Holmes on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:13PM (#6498040)

The problem I've always had with OpenVPN is that it seems to break down when you are behind the router running the OpenVPN server. I can get an 10.0.0.1 IP on the WAN but not on the LAN. I've asked this question in the OpenVPN forum, but never got a response so I am still using Hamachi. Still looking...

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Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? by ryduh on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:00PM (#6486015)

I haven't used it yet, but check out http://www.freelan.org/

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Re:What is the best open source Hamachi alternative? by Holmes on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:18PM (#6486096)

Have looked at it but configuration behind NAT router is a bear. Guess there is a reason LogMeIn bought Hamachi. Not trivial to authenticate and tunnel behind NAT.

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