Mike’s Technology Blog

Ok, now that I have StarCraft running on Linux, the next thing that came to my mind was network gaming. But no one in our house would want to play it with me so I thought of the possibility of setting up a virtual LAN via the internet. A quick search on good ol’ Google came up with Hamachi (www.hamachi.cc). Hamachi is a software that allows me to do exactly what I wanted - to setup a Local Area Network over my Internet connection. So I downloaded my copy and asked my friend Kiel delos Angeles who lives just a few houses away to do the same. We installed our copies and followed instructions and we got connected to each other as if we were only on one LAN but this time, it’s LAN Over Internet.

Then, we put it to the test. It was great! We were able to play StarCraft together as if we were on the same LAN. There were a few slow network experiences but those were tolerable. Hamachi provides a GUI setup for Windows users and a command line version for Linux and OSX. Gui version for Linux and OSX is said to be under development. It’s a great tool and it was pretty trivial to setup LAN Over Internet with Hamachi.