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Thanks for creating Hamachi. I used it for older games that didn't have internet play, but had LAN functionality, with friends online. I never knew it was a sol

Thanks for creating Hamachi. I used it for older games that didn't have internet play, but had LAN functionality, with friends online. I never knew it was a solo project before LogmeIn bought it (and made it buggy/unreliable). What a joyfully simple program that was!

wlesieutre 7y ago
Oh wow, I've used both Hamachi and Bvckup, but never realized they were made by the same developer. Two great pieces of software. We used a couple of alternatives after LogMeIn bought Hamachi and retargeted it at enterprise users, but none of them were ever quite as good. And as games have continued to strip out LAN support and/or gotten better at working through NATs, it's been a while since I needed anything like it. No longer using Bvckup (my photo library doesn't live on my Windows machine anymore) but it was a nice change of pace to run something where it felt like the developer actually thought about the interface. With most utilities on Windows that's really not the case.
- apankrat 7y ago
  Hamachi had its place back in mid-00's, but I agree that a need for zeroconf LAN bridging has gone down substantially since then. I do think however that extracting its p2p tunneling bit into a separate service could be a good thing to do even now. Its NAT punching was server-driven, which was (and still is!) a superior way to do it. Better timing, tighter port prediction. Heck, it could even establish _TCP_ tunnels through the simultaneous open trick.
apankrat 7y ago
De nada. It was a good project. In addition to the LAN gaming over the Internet, the second best thing was pranking people by printing random stuff on their LAN printers.
- jbverschoor 7y ago
  What do you think about ZeroTier?
  - apankrat 7y ago
    Looks like an elaborate and well-thought through take on zeroconf overlay networking.

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Thanks for creating Hamachi. I used it for older games that didn't have internet play, but had LAN functionality, with friends online. I never knew it was a sol

by degenerate 7y ago

wlesieutre 7y ago
Oh wow, I've used both Hamachi and Bvckup, but never realized they were made by the same developer. Two great pieces of software. We used a couple of alternatives after LogMeIn bought Hamachi and retargeted it at enterprise users, but none of them were ever quite as good. And as games have continued to strip out LAN support and/or gotten better at working through NATs, it's been a while since I needed anything like it. No longer using Bvckup (my photo library doesn't live on my Windows machine anymore) but it was a nice change of pace to run something where it felt like the developer actually thought about the interface. With most utilities on Windows that's really not the case.
- apankrat 7y ago
  Hamachi had its place back in mid-00's, but I agree that a need for zeroconf LAN bridging has gone down substantially since then. I do think however that extracting its p2p tunneling bit into a separate service could be a good thing to do even now. Its NAT punching was server-driven, which was (and still is!) a superior way to do it. Better timing, tighter port prediction. Heck, it could even establish _TCP_ tunnels through the simultaneous open trick.
apankrat 7y ago
De nada. It was a good project. In addition to the LAN gaming over the Internet, the second best thing was pranking people by printing random stuff on their LAN printers.
- jbverschoor 7y ago
  What do you think about ZeroTier?
  - apankrat 7y ago
    Looks like an elaborate and well-thought through take on zeroconf overlay networking.