Some buddies and I are trying to set up a VPN using Windows 2000 that uses IPX. The VPN allows us to connect (currently just trying Red Alert 2). The Host machine can see the Client in the Chat Room and can get chat messages from the Client. The Client machine can not see the Host, nor can it see any messages. We have tried setting the various Frame Types and Network Numbers available with the IPX protocol to no avail (in both the game and Network settings). Any ideas?

Are you running TCP/IP and IPX or just IPX? Many games use IPX only and some use IPX encapsulated w/ TCP/IP... Best setting is to have both TCP/IP and IPX binding to each NIC card.

yeah, a friend and i are trying to do the same thing with Starcraft in win2k - and IT DOESN'T WORK. help!!! We have IPX/SPX installed and TCP/IP. I am connected directly to his LAN and can access his computers through windows (by typing \\computername), but I can't see any of them in computers near me nor can I ping anything but the server. (his server has an IP for itself on his network and one for the VPN) I think that has something to do with it - if anyone could help with getting this thing up and running, please do! thanks!

Guess u're not alone. I'm having trouble connecting 2 my buddies' computer while playing the LAN multiplayer of the Starcraft. All my friends are using Windows 98 while my machine is running on Windows 2000. Can anyone out there help?

IPX gaming over Internet using VPN sorry can't be done. I tried configuring a pptp server to connect VPN client w/ lan clients, etc. IPX over VPN can't be done. The reason is IPX assigns each client a separate network address and a node address. Kind of like IP subnets and host addresses. The major diffrence comes into play for broadcast packet forwarding. In order to find a LAN game server, the game client sends a broadcast over the subnet and the game server hears this broadcast and will advertise itself. This broadcast is easy to forward over IP subnets (depending on your configuration and enviroment). Forwarding IPX broadcast across IPX networks is a bit more tricky... maybe a Novell server.

Howdy..This sounds complicated!! Is there any novice guides to this sort of thing? A friend and I want to hook up our pc's to get some racing in..I read the microsoft explination..without alot of enlightenment,but I'll try again.I guess I'm wondering if it's possible for me win' me,dsl,to hook with his win98,56k..I'm not sure but I think I'll have to use a TCP connection...any guidence will be greatly appreciated!!

did u try kahn ipx emulator ? http://www.kahncentral.net/