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hehe..i hope i get that mouse. it's tite!!!

also there are a few other ways to do it. but they are really complicated and would take a long damn time to do it. this is how i got it setup at home and work. i had the same prob as i mentioned above. the reason it's messed up is that the nic card is being used by the connection. i used to think that it could do both but that's not possible..il icq u when i get home and see how its coming! if you are on that is =)

when u get it up and running lmk i would love to play on that server
 
A crossover cable is just a standard cat5 network cable that has had certian wires crossed. The hub does the wire crossing for you, but if you don't want to use the hub, you can cross them within the wire itself, but then this cable can only be used machine to machine. Hooking it up to the hub will essentially uncross the wires.

If you already have the hubs, go ahead and use one. That way you can just plug a new machine in and your ready to rock without the need to rewire your existing connections.

Need4Speed's solution will probably work, but it is not very secure and will limit you to the Netbios connection. I'm no game expert, but I'm sure I have run across a couple that are TCP/IP only... I don't think that would allow play over a Netbios network. But it will work without the need of the extra NIC.
 
MadRat:
I thought your idea sounded plausable, and I tested your theory....my ip's are ALL unroutable.
Yet setting up UT it worked for me to connect to a internet game via lan. This bugged me and I started to think about why.
Well I have 2 computers NOT on the internal network at home. Then I have two that ARE on it...all sharing the same line. The only real difference in my setup is that I have a cable modem router & switch (ended up being cheaper than purchasing 3 more IP addresses). The switch works because it KNOWS when you are using internal and internet addresses.

I think MadRat is right and I recommend picking up the linksys (heh or a cisco one is your are made of cash) cable modem/DSL router. This works PERFECTLY for all of my needs and I think that is going to be your cheapest bet. OR if you are using only 2 computers, add an extra nic in the gateway machine and run a crossover cable for a NAT router (you can use the included Internet Connection SHaring...REALLLY easy to set up)...

Hope that helped!
 
Windows Whistler lets you have two IPs assigned to the same NIC (as the solution to having two NICs in the same computer)
 
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