Hamachi is a virtual private network application that lets us securely extend LAN-like networks to distributed PCs from different public networks. This way we can play LAN games with our friends without having to be in the same local network (aka the same house).

It is a useful tool for a Minecraft Server, that we can use in order to allow people in our Hamachi network to connect to our LAN server via a Hamachi connection. This saves us the trouble of port-forwarding in our router and giving our public IP.

Download Hamachi

Download latest version from site:

wget https://www.vpn.net/installers/logmein-hamachi_2.1.0.203-1_amd64.deb
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Install Hamachi

sudo dpkg -i logmein-hamachi_2.1.0.203-1_amd64.deb
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Start Hamachi

sudo service logmein-hamachi start
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Hamachi commands

Login

sudo hamachi login
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Join an existing network

sudo hamachi join <network ID>
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Check Status / List Networks / Update

sudo hamachi
sudo hamachi list
sudo hamachi check-update
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Change Network Status

sudo hamachi go-online <network ID>
sudo hamachi go-offline <network ID>
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Create Network

sudo hamachi create <network ID> [password]
sudo hamachi --help (for other options)
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