Play Lan Games



Hi thanks for your reply, I have a vpn router which is in my dads house which is also my gateway to the internet. I also have the vpn users setup on the router. I've ran the ethernet cable across to my house into my switch so it's basically all one network. I don't have a phone line you see don't intend on getting one either, so i just use my dads for wan. My friends connects to my vpn router from his house which is about half a mile away. I setup the game on my windows 7 OS on far cry 2 as a lan game, my friend can't see the game or even connect to it via ip address. But he can see all my file shares etc and rdp, vnc onto every machine on my lan. He's on a different broadcast address from me, I told him to use ipconfig /all and it shows the ip address my dads vpn router assigned to him followed by a subnet of 255.255.255.255.
but on my network my subnet is 255.0.0.0 I've been told this will effect it. A colleague of mine at work told me to try a static route of wan: 255.255.255.255, subnet: 255.255.255.255, ip: 10.20.30.100 (internal ip of the host) which made no difference. Also my friends vpn connection on his pc when he dials the connection is set to send all traffic to my dads router (use it as the gateway). So i was wondering if he buys a vpn router and we setup a lan to lan vpn will that make it so he can see my lan games? connect to my lan games? or will it make no difference? Thanks

By far the easiest way is with a router. Assuming you don’t have a router, you will need a crossover ethernet cable a standard ethernet cable will not work.

Once you connect your pcs with a crossover cable, then set a static ip on each machine like this

Computer 1
IP: 192. 168. 0. 2
Subnet Mask: 255. 255. 0. 0
Leave Default gateway blank.

Computer 2
IP: 192. 168. 0. 3
Subnet Mask: 255. 255. 0. 0
Leave Default gateway blank.

How to set a static ip http://www. tech-faq. com/how-do-i-set-a-static-ip-address-in-windows. shtml