Hello forum,

I would like to set up a VPN on my Linode 512 (which is running CentOS 5.7), and I hope to get some pointers from the Linode community.

Besides doing this setup as a learning experience, another reason is because I currently live outside of the U.S., and I would like to use VPN for multiplayer gaming (such as TF2 or BF3). I wonder if a Linode 512 is good enough for such usage.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello world.

I did some Google searching. Is OpenVPN a good choice for beginner? I am reading the guides:

- http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-ser ... guide.html
- http://nkush.blogspot.com/2011/10/insta ... os-57.html

I am confused about how I should connect my laptop from oversea, to my Linode VPS in the U.S., for gaming.

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Hello world.

If you just want to do multiplayer gaming and you're not hosting the game on your server (because then you don't need a VPN), a star-topology VPN is very inefficient and will provide a poor experience. For that, you want a P2P VPN like Hamachi:

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/

The interface is kind of like an instant message client. It's typically used for multiplayer gaming.

If you have trouble, there's some troubleshooting here:

http://logmeinwiki.com/wiki/Hamachi:Gaming_over_Hamachi

Yup, you pretty much have to forget about gaming with others though a VPN like openvpn.

Use hamachi for that.

Thanks for the replies. I will try Hamachi.

Just want to talk a bit more about why I want to set up a VPN (because at this point I don't know if Hamachi suits my needs or not):

- As mentioned, for playing multiplayer games, because some U.S. servers block the oversea IP.
- Many U.S. websites redirect oversea visitors to the regional pages. For example, imgur.com, which doesn't allow visitors in my region to use anonymous uploading.

So I did some searching on the web, and found several suggestions about using paid VPN service. Since I am using a Linode VPS, I want to use my own VPN instead.

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Hello world.

Yeah that are real problems, and I'd also like to know how to overcome this. Gonna check out Hamachi, thanks!
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ipad application development

Hamachi won't let you play on US servers or use US websites, because it's a P2P VPN; you'd have to be hosting the server yourself, or have somebody else who joins your Hamachi network host a server.

If you're setting up a VPN to play on US game servers, your latency will suck, and you'll probably be banned from a lot of servers... The VPN will make it worse than it'd be if you connected directly.