Web 2.0 & tools 10 Aug 2006 10:54 am
Simple VPN that works
At Tangler, we’ve been using a great little tool called Hamachi internally for a while now. It provides stunningly simple solution to a common problem — remote access to machines. Once you install Hamachi on a machine it can join a secure “virtual lan” that can extend across anywhere on the internet. Using Hamachi, you no longer think in terms of local networks — all the machines are just there.
Great things about it:
- Hamachi installs as a network adapter, so it appears to the operating system as an actual network (you can ping it).
- It’s highly secure using an open architecture.
- It using a reverse connection server to negotiate around firewalls (just like Skype or Zapr).
- It works on Windows, Linux and the HeatMaster3000 (Mac).
- It has a fully functioning free version.
- It works.
Hamachi has been recently bought by LogMeIn, Inc, which I hope will keep things running along the same track. Whilst I congratulate the Hamachi creators, I think they got out too early. This product is brilliant and had a long way to go before realising it’s incredible potential. I blame the VC community for not finding/investing sooner. 
on 11 Aug 2006 at 11:33 pm 1. said …
howdy. technorati led me to your blog!
I wouldn’t worry about logmein; from what i’ve been reading on both the official sites of L and H, alex pankratov, the guy who created Hamachi, is really happy with the purchase and is staying on to control things; it’s not like all of a sudden the program is in different hands. They’re keeping the program free too. I don’t know; I think things will be okay