GPL Online Problem - Help please!

Me and my friend while we had 56 K dial up modems, would race against each other in GPL by using our IP addresses. Now that we have upgraded our internet connections (I have cable modem - he has DSL) we cannot figure out how to connect peer to peer in GPL anymore. Do I have to reinstall GPL or is there a patch that would allow us to play this way? It was so easy for on guy to host and another to type in a IP address and away you go. The only options that are showing on my game are "connect through a COM port". He said the in addition to the COM ports, he has TCP/IP listed. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you for your help! Dave

If you don't have the option of IP, you need to make sure this line is correct in your core.ini, my guess is that currently its set to 0(zero) [ Communications ] alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Dave K <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Me and my friend while we had 56 K dial up modems, would race against > each other in GPL by using our IP addresses. Now that we have upgraded > our internet connections (I have cable modem - he has DSL) we cannot > figure out how to connect peer to peer in GPL anymore. Do I have to > reinstall GPL or is there a patch that would allow us to play this way? > It was so easy for on guy to host and another to type in a IP address > and away you go. > > The only options that are showing on my game are "connect through a COM > port". He said the in addition to the COM ports, he has TCP/IP listed. > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? > > Thank you for your help! > > Dave > > >

Dave K wrote:

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> > Me and my friend while we had 56 K dial up modems, would race against > each other in GPL by using our IP addresses. Now that we have upgraded > our internet connections (I have cable modem - he has DSL) we cannot > figure out how to connect peer to peer in GPL anymore. Do I have to > reinstall GPL or is there a patch that would allow us to play this way? > It was so easy for on guy to host and another to type in a IP address > and away you go. > > The only options that are showing on my game are "connect through a COM > port". He said the in addition to the COM ports, he has TCP/IP listed. > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? > > Thank you for your help! > > Dave

Why not just set up a passworded race on VROC with only 2 'humans' allowed? Only you two know the password so you won't be troubled. You can even set up your own chat room.

http://www.bonghead.org/racing/gpl_help/index.htm Cable modem 001 maybe this help sz

Thank you guys, for the information. I will try several things. Dave K. Stefan Zscharnack wrote: > http://www.bonghead.org/racing/gpl_help/index.htm > Cable modem 001 > > maybe this help > sz