Lan Tunneling Gaming?

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New to Linux; curious about something.

I’m a big fan of retro gaming; especially with the path the the big corporate’s and the industry has been trying to control the market and force live service gaming like trying to shove a rock with rusty nails protruding from it’s surface… Rather, I’m not a big fan with the direction of the industry; have been playing some of my older titles and looking for work-around’s to play most of these titles online again with friends who picked on on the same sentiment.

One of the issue’s I’m facing, however, is setting up a LAN game over the internet; we specifically used Radmin VPN to connect our machines to a single network on Windows in order to play peer-to-peer games or make the attempt to get an online game working.

Bottom Line; I’m trying to find the Linux equivalent or script or methods where a VPN is setup or something to run LAN Tunneling to play some of these old Windows titles online again such as Fur Fighters(PC), Warcraft 3, Starcraft, BattleRealm’s, etc.

Is there something setup for that in Linux or Bazzite? There is an app that was developed called PartyLan developed for Steam; but I’m not a huge fan of using Steam as my launcher for this and I don’t think it’s compatible with Linux and the services Valve offers for it’s titles might be changing here soon as Gabe might be or is retiring.

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Why not use tailscale vpn? its already preinstalled with bazzite and is easy to setup.

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Because I’m a complete noob mostly and will admit it.
That and they are asking way too many questions for a VPN. XD

I did take a look at them, but I’ll give it another look; I was hoping for something more centered on LAN gaming through such tunneling to do peer-to-peer sort of like X Kai Link does with console’s; which even then: That’s rough figuring out how to run on Linux Alone without knowing what’s going on with it to an extent.

I miss when Tunngle was around before the EU’s demand on their internet law’s shut them down.

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Tailscale is better in many ways. It’s like hamachi, but with more uses. I heard there are problems with latency, but other services also suffer same problems. IMHO tailscale is fairly easy to setup and there are many GUIs and guides for it.