Replace/Supplant/Overwrite Hamachi with ZeroTier-One

Wait there just one moment -- you mean to tell me I never posted about replacing Hamachi for something in “orders of magnitude” better?!!? How absurd of me.

Purge that crippled software and reconstitute with ZeroTier-One immediately! ZeroTier is cross-platform and even works on my obsolete Synology 410j. Forget Hamachi FOREVER!

Free Versions of	Hamachi	ZeroTier-One
Nodes per network	5	100
Bandwidth	Low	High
Dropped Connection	Often	Rare †
IP Assignment	Auto-assigned	Auto-assigned or Static
IPv4 Subnets	25.*.*.*	10.147.17.* 10.147.18.* 10.147.19.* 10.147.20.* 10.144.*.* 10.241.*.* 10.242.*.* 10.243.*.* 10.244.*.* 172.22.*.* 172.23.*.* 172.24.*.* 172.25.*.* 172.26.*.* 172.27.*.* 172.28.*.* 172.29.*.* 172.30.*.* 192.168.191.* 192.168.192.* 192.168.193.* 192.168.194.* 192.168.195.* 192.168.196.*
IPv6	yes	RFC4193 (/128) & 6PLANE (/80)
Traffic Filtering	Client Firewall	Custom traffic and protocol (“Flow”) rules with v1.2.x
SourceCode	Closed Source	Open Source and freedom loving
Free Support	Forums; but often goes unanswered	Support button on website, Knowledge-Base, and Forums; Super responsive

† The only time my connection dropped, was when ZeroTier versioned from 1.1.4 to 1.2.x and a couple of my clients had to be re-authorized & re-IP’d via WebUI. Doing so put them back online without touching the clients. Now that’s cool.

I'm syncing files over my ZeroTier VPN now.  You could consider replacing DropBox and BTSync with SyncThing. See my previous post for a quick and dirty install.

Other cross-platform Hamachi alternatives that I have not tried (because ZeroTier-One just works!) :
- SoftEther VPN
- tinc vpn
- FreeLAN
- NeoRouter Free (as opposed to the Mesh and Pro versions)

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meanwhile back at the batlab

$ sudo aptitude purge logmein-hamachi
The following packages will be REMOVED:
logmein-hamachi{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 2,867 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] YYYYYYY
(Reading database ... 105225 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing logmein-hamachi (2.1.0.86-1) ...
Stopping LogMeIn Hamachi VPN tunneling engine logmein-hamachi *
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi ...
/etc/rc0.d/K49logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc1.d/K49logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc2.d/S11logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc3.d/S11logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc4.d/S11logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc5.d/S11logmein-hamachi
/etc/rc6.d/K49logmein-hamachi
Purging configuration files for logmein-hamachi (2.1.0.86-1) ...

Current status: 5796 new [-1].
$ echo "joy"

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