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
    9·
    5 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
      6·
      5 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·
        5 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·
          5 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”.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        You shouldn’t need serve or Funnel if your friends run the client and join your network.

        Best part, they can choose to only run the client when they want to game.

        That said, I notice a little lag when using RDP over it on the local net (while testing). Though that may be a round-Robin issue.

  • Dalraz@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Tailscale/headscale are always recommended and they are good options but I want to recommend netbird as an alternative. This is what I have currently setup and it’s fantastic.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Tailscale and Netbird are what you are looking for. I highly recommend Netbird as it is much more user friendly. Just keep in mind it forwards all ports by default. You can change that in the access policies

    i2p also can do it if you need privacy

  • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Can’t recommend tailscale enough, it is much easier to set up than ZeroTier and has much more intuitive access control (so you could make it so your friends can only see the server and not each other for example)