Hi thank you for helping me with my last issue (Sunlight remote desktop). Now I have encountered another issue VPN. I’d like to use Hamachi to play remotely with a friend (he’ll be using Moonlight to connect to my Linux PC) the problem is that he’s using a M1 Mac and Hamachi is not working on those. Maybe you guys have a better and open source alternative for Hamachi that’s also “easy” to setup and connect to.
Tailscale
It’s WireGuard based and it’s completely free for 100 devices.
Zerotier has been the best alternative in my experience.
ZeroTier pros:
- Exit nodes don’t break if I lose wifi for a moment
- Works with custom DNS setups out of the box
- Allow-LAN actually works on Android, rather, is the default
- No member limits for free
- No need to disown devices and putting them into tags to be able to set SSH ACLs
- Works out of the box with other overlay networks and VPNs
ZeroTier cons:
- No freemium tunneling feature
- No convenient browser-based SSH that only admins can use for some reason
- Not nearly as sexy
Candles are punching above their weight these days, it seems
On features ZeroTier > Tailscale, but the existance of headscale and ionscale brings me back all because ZeroTierOne is BSL, aka not FOSS.
Zerotier or Tailscale
Any open VPN protocol that MacOS supports will work. I’d actually say, you’re better off not using something like Hamachi. Keep in mind, allowing your friend direct VPN access to your network without any extra rules will allow them full access to everything on your network, so make sure you only allow traffic to things you want them to access.
Check if your router already has a VPN Server you can enable and let your friend connect to and set it up (easiest option). If not, just run the VPN server on your machine, and forward the port from your router to your machine.
You could try Tinc but it’s fairly involved to get running. Pretty nice if you have a root server and want to get several people wired up, though. There are probably easier solutions for your use case.
Tinc is terrible
It’s awful to setup, and hasn’t been updated in years. Anything Wireguard, or Wireguard-based will be lightyears better.
It’s a shame Tinc hasn’t had a release, because 1.1 made it much easier to set up, and is what I used before switching to Headscale. I’d actually go back to it if 1.1 got officially released =P
