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EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

pjgt..

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by pjgt.. » Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:31:55

I'll try your tip and see, I'll let you knwo if it works, thanx for the
info.

*Peter* -  http://www.racesimcentral.net/~peterpc/home.html

Gunnar Horrigm

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by Gunnar Horrigm » Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:50:16


> Peter, I've never had any luck with any other ip's other than those
> dummy ones.  I know it works with them, I've used it.  The only way
> (that I am aware of) you can use "genuine" ip addresses is if you are
> both on the net.  

not true.  any IP-net will work.  online or not.  the only difference
is that the nets:

10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

are unroutable.  there's one more, reserved for testing or somesuch.
all this means is that you should use one of the above mentioned
IP-ranges if your computers don't have official IP-adresses
(i.e. they're offline, or your doing masquerading/NATing).

either you're doing something wrong, or the game is broken.

check http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/cgi-bin/hyperrfc?rfc1918.txt for the
full standard.

IPX has nothing to do with this.

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nix

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by nix » Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:21:47




>> Peter, I've never had any luck with any other ip's other than those
>> dummy ones.  I know it works with them, I've used it.  The only way
>> (that I am aware of) you can use "genuine" ip addresses is if you are
>> both on the net.  

>not true.  any IP-net will work.  online or not.  the only difference
>is that the nets:

>10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255
>172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255
>192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

>are unroutable.  there's one more, reserved for testing or somesuch.
>all this means is that you should use one of the above mentioned
>IP-ranges if your computers don't have official IP-adresses
>(i.e. they're offline, or your doing masquerading/NATing).

Ok, I'm sure you're right.  I didn't state that "This is the only set
of IP addresses that can ever be used"  I'm just trying to let the guy
know what positively worked for me.  

I think that's obvious.

I'm aware that IPX has nothing to do with the game itself.  But, he
thought that if each computer could see each other, then the game
would automatically work.  So, in this case, IPX does have something
to do with this.

Eldre

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by Eldre » Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:24:18


>>> We can both do that on a cable modem as well.  But,
>>> if the cable modem is down (using a hub, twisted pairs will be the
>>> same) we have to go with the 100.100.100.1 and .2 numbers.  These
>>> numbers are put in manually into your ip section of network
>>> properties.

>>either you're doing something wrong, or the game is broken.

>I think that's obvious.

Did Peter ever say(or did someone ask) if he can ping one system from the
other?  I don't remember...

Eldred
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nix

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by nix » Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:38:02



>>>> We can both do that on a cable modem as well.  But,
>>>> if the cable modem is down (using a hub, twisted pairs will be the
>>>> same) we have to go with the 100.100.100.1 and .2 numbers.  These
>>>> numbers are put in manually into your ip section of network
>>>> properties.

>>>either you're doing something wrong, or the game is broken.

>>I think that's obvious.

>Did Peter ever say(or did someone ask) if he can ping one system from the
>other?  I don't remember...

>Eldred

I don't recall that he did.  He did say that he could "see" the other
box, and I assume he means file sharing.  He also said that he could
see ip numbers in the game, and they matched the numbers when he
checked winipcfg.  Sounds like his IPX is up, but TCP/IP is not.
pjgt..

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by pjgt.. » Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:47:39



> Did Peter ever say(or did someone ask) if he can ping one system from
> the
> other?  I don't remember...

How (exactly) do I do this? eg: using winipcfg?

I assume my LAN is working ok, cos, *all* my other games (including,
TOCA2, GPL, GP3,Super 1 karting, Wargasm, etc, etc, all work fine on it,
and I don't have to manually enter any ip address, it just works!)

8-)

*Peter* -  http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

pjgt..

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by pjgt.. » Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:47:42

Aha, maybe we are getting somewhere now. Ages ago I read an article
about people (hackers, spammers, etc) getting info on your pc while it
is connected to the net.

The article mentioned the "Shields up" website, and advised how you
could disable the open ports (which are left open by windoze by
default usually) on your pc, this involved disabling most tcp stuff, or
at least removing the link from IPX & TCP network stuff (I can't
remember exactly how though, sorry!)

ISTR removing or disabling options from the start, settings, control
panel, network section. I then went to the "Shields up" site to check
how secure my pc was (it was much more secure after closing these
ports).

So, maybe I need tcp stuff to be re-installed for sbk2001 to work? What
settings do you have installed under control panel, networks stuff?

Does this mean sbk2001 is only designed to be networked vai the
internet, or is LAN (IPX) plan possible too?

8-)

*Peter* -  http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

Eldre

EA SBK2001 on a LAN?

by Eldre » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:51:07



>So, maybe I need tcp stuff to be re-installed for sbk2001 to work? What
>settings do you have installed under control panel, networks stuff?

>Does this mean sbk2001 is only designed to be networked vai the
>internet, or is LAN (IPX) plan possible too?

Again, from the readme.txt...<g>

"7.  Network
-----------------------------------------------------------------

The game supports TCP/IP LAN & Internet connection only."

You can't use IPX, Netbios, NetBEUI, or anything else *except* TCP/IP.  It
sounds like you've closed down your systems to incoming connections.  To ping
the other system, click Start, Run.  Type in
command
then hit <enter>.  From the command prompt, type:
ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Where the x's represent the other system's IP address.  If it says destination
unreachable, that's the problem.  You'll need to open up some of what you
closed, or re-install TCP/IP.  If the ping works, it will give numbers for the
delay between systems.

Eldred
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