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Re: Net Doom on Lantastic

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From: ez00... Taylor Gautier
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 21:27
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Juan Ardura (Juan_...@iegate.mitre.org) wrote:
: The other night a friend of mine and I tried to set up Doom for net play
: over an existing and operational ethernet link, using lantastic, between
: two 486 machines (a server and a client).  We were trying to set up
: lantastic to use IPX since net Doom requires it,  but had problems getting
: lantastic configured correctly.  Has someone been able to run net Doom
: using lantastic?  Could you post your startnet.bat file or any other
: information on how you set up your PCs/network to get net Doom working?

: Thanks,

: Juan Ardura

Your cards should've come with the appropriate drivers to run ipx.  That 
is if they say novell certified or compatible or whatever.  So, don't run 
the lantastic (lantastic has *nothing* to do with IPX which DOOM uses) 
net and load up the drivers for ipx.  That's it.


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Taylor Gautier   -- ez00...@hamlet.ucdavis.edu

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