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Hamachi

What is it?

With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.

Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free.

READ! - External Links


Hamachi public networks for popular Games : www.hamachi.cz
English translate : www.eng.hamachi.cz
Individual help : www.Forum.hamachi.cz

Initial Configuration

To run Hamachi you need /dev/net/tun.

This is created by the tun module. As root run,

modprobe tun

Or you can manually create /dev/net/tun by running...

mkdir /dev/net
mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200

Also, make sure to add the "tun" modules to rc.conf so that /dev/net/tun is created next time your computer turns on.

MODULES=(... ... ... ... ... tun ... ... ...)

Download And Install Hamachi

Hamachi is avaiable in the AUR!

AUR Page

Download the package, untar it, and run...

makepkg

in the hamachi directory that is created.


Then add the package with...

pacman -A hamachi-(package version)


Now as root run...

tuncfg


Finally, run hamachi-init

hamachi-init




Or you can get it manually.

Head to hamachi.cc and download their linux client.

Untar it

tar zxvf hamachi-x.x.x-x.tar.gz

Compile:

cd hamachi-x.x.x-x
make install

And run tunecfg

cd tuncfg
./tuncfg

Run hamachi-init

$hamachi-init

And thats the installation.

Running Hamachi

Start up the (matt) daemon

$hamachi start

Now you have a whole bunch of commands at your disposal. These are in no particular order, and are fairly self explanitory.

$hamachi set-nick bob
$hamachi login
$hamachi create my-net secretpassword
$hamachi go-online my-net
$hamachi list
$hamachi go-offline my-net

To get a list of all the commands just run:

$hamachi ?

Note: Make sure you change the status of the channel(s) you are in to online if you want to perform any network actions on computers in there.

GUI

I found this link on the forums at hamachii. Its a GTK2+ GUI frontend. Not bad if your into that sort of thing.

Hamachi GUI

If Hamachi times out soon after launch

When I was trying to get hamachi working on my two arch systems, I was testing it with some friends, who were running the windows Hamachi2 client. They could access each other fine, and both could access my system for a short (< 1 minute) period of time after I started Hamachi and logged on. Then, my hamachi connection would die. It turned out to be that my client was timing out. I created ~/.hamchi/config and added the following to it:

KeepAlive 10

Afterwards, the connection was stable. --sdellysse

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