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[Austin]

Ok, so we tested Hamachi before, we dismissed that it worked because we couldn't join in the IMR nor on the GAME > NETWORK mode.

BUT, I needed someone to test a track with me, and Xander was the only available one. He couldn't join in the IMR, as he has a Speedtouch Router. So we tried Hamachi, and it didn't work either.

Sooo as a last attempt, we went into NETWORK > GAME and used the Hamachi IP to connect, and it worked both ways.

Going to do some other tests with router'd players.

www.hamachi.cc (version 0.9.9.9)

[Igglybob]

w00t indeed!
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[Austin]

Hamachi config:

Network : hoverrace-hamachi-test
Password : hr

*****USE CONFIG ON SECOND PAGE*****

[Zooz]

I've already read about this on forums for about 6 different games... finally an excuse to get it

[Austin]

From early testing, kittygal on DMZ, and Glen without DMZ, both successfully connected.

*waiting for another player behind a router to join*

Yeah Killerj got in fine too, all can see each other.

PROOF:

[Austin]

Just had a 2 vs 2 game on that sports track I'm making, and 4 people were on routers, only two were configured for DMZ, but with Hamachi it didn't matter , every person joined, and no specific order was required.

HAMACHI FTW!

[Dragon]

This kinda doesnt apply to me (wouldve last year), but congrads on the fix. You guys are making really good progress.

[Skelator]

This is prolly a dumb question but its 5:51am and I'm dying cos of the heat.... Does it work in the IMR? How easy is it to use? Any chnace of a howto?

[Austin]

It doesn't work in the IMR (as said in the first post ), it's easy to set up (works windows to linux apparently).

I'll also write a tutorial on the "unable to connect page" later tonight when I'm home from work.

And the fix DOES apply to everyone, even the ones without routers. WHY? Because you need to be on the Virtual Private Network to connect to each other. If you didn't install Hamachi, your normal connection wouldn't recognize the 5.*.*.* ip's, the only downside, is you can only have a max of 15 free users on a single network, but i guess you can simply make a network each time a lot of you are in the imr, and just all join it on the day. I would pay for Hamachi but it costs per MONTH which is fairly rediculous, and doesn't benefit anyone if I did.

I'd also like to thanks either BaP (I think it was BaP), he originally showed me Hamachi.

[Skelator]

Ok thanks, your post confused me because it said "nor in the GAME->Network" lol

anyway,

Another question.... Why does it not work in the IMR?

I might play around with this when I get some time off.

[Skelator]

FRom looking at the website, yeah... that program looks very interesting.

Can I define what it can and cannot do? This is prolly silly but I have to make sure that nobody can use it to access my router and other computers on my network before installing network software.

[Zooz]

[Skelator]

Thanks zooz... I think thats the confimration I needed... I just don;t wanna get hacked by angry/nosey HR players hehe... Well I'm giving it a shot now.

[Skelator]

ok.. I've installed it on my linux box and connected to the network but I can't ping anyone.... Can anyone ping me?

Can anyone ping each other?

[Zooz]

I can ping the others. It just starts \Windows\System32\ping.exe, which Linux probably doesn't have