LAN party

[ziplux]

I'm going to have a LAN party, my question is, how do I provide internet access thru my cable modem? I have a way to provide internet access thru a proxy program, but that won't work for UDP, which is what most games use. My goal is to set up an internal network and have one comp be hooked up to the cable modem and the internal network. I'll run all servers from that comp, so that somehow both the internet players and people on the LAN can play in the same game. Does anyone know how I can acomplish this? Thanks in advance.

 

[paruhd0x]

Run a DHCP NAT with Win2k Server... works flawlessly

 

[frustrated2]

Well you have to have a "server" with 2 lan cards in it. This will connect you to the cable modem and the network hub. When everyone hooks up via the network you will have internet connection sharing from inside windows actually works quite nicely and is truely not that hard to do in fact when the people get configured to your network windows will most likely find its own way onto the internet once internet explorer is opened up. Also the people that will be accessing the server from the internet will need your server name and ip address to make sure they get the right one. Hope this helps

 

[ziplux]

<< Run a DHCP NAT with Win2k Server... works flawlessly >>



Someone with a win2k server comp will be at the party, is NAT built into Win2k or does it have to be added separately?

 

[Qman71]

NAT is built into 2000. The machine must have 2 nics and 1 must be connected to your Internet connection, with the other connected to an internal hub. On the 2000 machine, go into network properties of the nic connected to the Internet, and somewhere in there is a setting to share this connection. It's as simple as that!