Create a Virtual Network

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How to Create a Virtual Network

A Virtual Network is a named, password-gated group — everyone who joins it auto-connects to everyone else, no manual offer/answer pasting. You host it yourself, on your own machine. This page walks through creating one, field by field. To join one someone else created, see How to Join a Virtual Network.

Before you start

You don't need the real virtual adapter enabled to create a network — that's only required once you actually connect to peers. Just have the app open.

Steps

1. Open the Network page.

2. Make sure the Virtual Network tab is selected (next to "Manual" at the top of the panel).

3. In the Create a network box, fill in:

   Field	What to put
   Network name	Any name your group will recognize — e.g. my-lan-party
   Password	Anything; this is what gates who can join, not encryption strength
   Bind address	Leave as 0.0.0.0:0 unless you have a reason to change it — port 0 means "pick any free port automatically"

4. Click Create & Join.

5. The panel switches to network view. It now shows:

   • The network name, with a Host badge next to it.
   • Host address — an ip:port string, with a Copy button.
   • A member list (empty until others join).

Share it

Send the following to whoever you want to invite, through any channel you already trust (chat, voice call, etc.):

• The network name
• The password
• The host address you copied in step 5

They'll use exactly these three things to join — see How to Join a Virtual Network.

What happens as people join

Each new member appears in your member list automatically, with a live connection-state dot. You don't need to do anything — every member auto-connects to every other member, including ones who joined before you saw them.

If people can't reach you

The most common cause: you're behind a NAT (a home router) without port forwarding, so your host address isn't actually reachable from the internet. This is a known limitation of self-hosting the signaling server yourself — see Features and Architecture for why. If this applies to you, either set up port forwarding for the port shown in your host address, or have someone else with a directly reachable address host instead.

Stopping the network

Click Leave Network in the panel, or just close the app. Either way, your signaling server stops and every member sees you leave.

Playing a specific game

If the game you're playing has its own page (currently: Minecraft), that page has a one-click quick-create panel using the same flow with the game's recommended connection settings pre-filled — see User Manual §7.