Show HN: LAN Party VPN – Run a VPN on Top of Discord

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I’ve been in lock down in a while (haven’t we all?). One of my major past times is to play games with my friends on Discord, and after a year we’ve ran out of games to play and started to look at classic games. Those games (namely SWAT4) are old enough to not support Steam multiplayer. However installing and setting up a VPN is quite a non-trivial process for non-techies.

So I took some time and wrote this application that uses Wintun and Discord SDK to encapsulate and transport IP packets (i.e. a layer 3 VPN running on Discord infra). It works reasonably well with my friends so I want to share it here.

Just want to leave some info for setups like this: Some old Games get confused with multiple Network Interfaces. What really helped me was using the cli Tool forcebindip forthe Person hosting the gameserver. It forces the Game to only Use a specific NIC.

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