I have a question about Use Dial-Up Networking over a LAN:

There is 2 network card in my pc. one for internet dialupDSL other for lan. When i try to play multiplayer games over Lan i cant see any servers and other Pcs from lan dont see me too. But we can connect if I enter IP from lan manually. There were no problems until i put another network card to pc for DSL

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I was searching for an answer to my own question and I probably won't make it back, but it seems my problem is similar. I too, am on a LAN - at home on ADSL with NIC and Router and at work with NIC and router/fiber. At home I have Win98 and Win2000. At work I have WINXP. At home when I dialup to the internet everything works fine - at work XP freaks out and cannot route. I work for an IT company in support and fortunately we do not support this sort of problem, however, I have had a customer express the same frustration over what seems to be an XP bug. All updates have been installed. Except for this one from this week. I will install and try again. Annoyances.org? ???? I will try and remember to make it back here if it works.


On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 6:55 am, Mar wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>Dial-Up Networking over a LAN:

>
>There is 2 network card in my pc. one for internet dialupDSL other for lan. When
>i try to play multiplayer games over Lan i cant see any servers and other Pcs from
>lan dont see me too. But we can connect if I enter IP from lan manually. There were
>no problems until i put another network card to pc for DSL

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I've had the same problem... Most games use the IPX protocol when you play over a network. Virtually no programs use the IPX protocol over the internet, but when you use a network card to connect to a DSL or cable or such, it still has an IPX protocol. The catch is your computer can only handle one at a time. In short; remove the IPX protocol from the network card that has your DSL and make sure there's one for the card connecting you to your LAN.


On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 6:55 am, Mar wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>Dial-Up Networking over a LAN:

>
>There is 2 network card in my pc. one for internet dialupDSL other for lan. When
>i try to play multiplayer games over Lan i cant see any servers and other Pcs from
>lan dont see me too. But we can connect if I enter IP from lan manually. There were
>no problems until i put another network card to pc for DSL

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Actually, your system can handle IPX and TCP/IP at the same time. The problem may be however that your system has IPX set at the default. When your application sends a request to the network and IPX times-out, the app may be aborting the request before the system can attempt to make the connection over TCP/IP. Or your system is somehow not configured to make another attempt on TCP/IP. However, these days, when IPX is called for, it is usually because the application wants to use "friendly" network names, like MyServer. TCP/IP, alone, does not support "friendly" network names. Netbios is used to help TCP/IP work with "friendly" network names. Bottom line, make sure you have Netbios over TCP/IP enabled and you should be able to remove IPX and you'll get the best of both worlds.


On Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 11:18 pm, Andrew wrote:
>I've had the same problem... Most games use the IPX protocol when you play over
>a network. Virtually no programs use the IPX protocol over the internet, but when
>you use a network card to connect to a DSL or cable or such, it still has an IPX
>protocol. The catch is your computer can only handle one at a time.
>
>In short; remove the IPX protocol from the network card that has your DSL and make
>sure there's one for the card connecting you to your LAN.
>
>

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