Aidan Gauland wrote, On 07/09/2012 03:32 PM:
I need to install Hamachi to connect to my friend's Minecraft server,
but I'm reluctant to give proprietary software root access to my
system. I've already done so for drivers, but I have no alternative
when it comes to that (if I want to make full use of my hardware).
What do you guys think? Can I trust it? What's the company's
reputation like? There's an unreferenced statement on Wikipedia that
the client is open source, but I have not been able to confirm this.
I do not trust any product that needs to route your traffic through
their servers.
Who's forcing you to use hamachi? Your friend cos its easy for him to do?
Remember this? http://i.imgur.com/5zIij.jpg
If you're dead keen on playing this game, either set up a point to point
VPN tunnel like ipsec or openvpn, or even a GRE tunnel between your
firewalls.
If he's close enough physically look at some kind of wireless.
If you want to protect your production servers from this slightly dodgy
stuff then run them in separate local LANs.
Put the game stuff on a dedicated DMZ with no access back to your server
LAN.
VM solutions are very handy too - set up an XP machine in a VM which is
in a VLAN with no access to your LAN. You can even use snapshots and
rollback if you think something's gone wrong.
Any questions ask.
--
Craig Falconer
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