Red Alert 2 Lan Playing Problem

[Equilibrium_ROCZ]

Hello.
I'm having a quite annoying problem.. hope that you'll be able to help me..
I was trying to play Red Alert 2 with my friend on LAN, but it didn't really work.
I know that this game requires IPX protocol on both comps in order to work, and I enabled it, but it didn't help.
I have two network cards on each of the comps, and enabled IPX protocols in all of them. I also tried all forms of IPX Frame Types on both of the computers, but it still didn't work.

I was told to try and test DirectPlay via the DirectX. At first, the two comps couldn't even detect each other, but when i changed the Frame Type to Ethernet II / Ethernet 802.2 - one of the comps did detect the other, but couldn't connect to it for some reason.

I was also told that RA2 works on IPX Frame Type 802.3, but as I said, I've already tried that, and it didn't work..

I'm using a crossover cable, not a router, and network is working with ICS.
The host comp's OS is Win XP, and the other is Win XP to...

Help would be greatly appreciated

[GroundZero3]

Do the computers have the windows firewall or some other firewall enabled?

http://mike.steinbaugh.com/2002/08/19/12.25.20/



can you ping the other machine?

[electric]

local area connections

internet protocols [TCP/IP] [highlight]>>properties>>
click ...use the following ip address


ip...different address for each computer
subnet...just click on it
click ok...all the way out

start game>>go network options>>lan ..you may see more than one
address

play with it to you get the one that works

[GroundZero3]

I believe Red Alert only runs on IPX. Not TCP/IP

[electric]

he has to change ip address on each computer so each is different

ie---192.168.1 for one
than ...192.168.2 for the other
and so on

at lease that how we use to do it and work fine

also the FW have to be turn off

[electric]

forgot to add this was using a hub