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I posted a while ago about what was needed to do to run DOOM over an ethernet.
I was finally able to try it, and no matter what I tried, it didn't work!

With my ultra-cheap ne2000 clone cards and thin ethernet (w/terminators) I 
hooked up 2 machines just as a "simple" test.  I made a net.cfg file that looks
like:

link driver ne2000
        int 9
        port 240
        frame Ethernet_II
        node address 080000005433

then I loaded the files:

lsl.com
ne2000.com
ipxodi.com
setup.exe

what would happen is that one player, the one on that machine, would be found,
but the other would not.  If I set up one machine for 3 players and the other
for 2, then the one with 2 players would "detect" both players and try to start,
but would just show a black screen.  The other would do nothing.  I also tried
another method that others have suggested:

lsl.com
ne2000.com
pdether.com
ipxodi.com
setup.exe

but it would lock up after pdether.  I tried the following entry in the net.cfg
file for pdether:

link driver PDEther
        INT 0x60
        FRAME Ethernet_II
        PROTOCOL IPX 8137 Ethernet_II

but that locked up also.  I'm not sure where I got pdether from, but it was v1.1
and said that it was "built" on some date.  Does this mean that I need to build
it myself?

If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I would really appreciate it.  I 
have tried almost everything; scoured countless ftp sites and documentation for
files, tried MANY different setups, and nothing worked.  I was able to actually
talk several others on my floor into making the investment for network hardware
for DOOM, and if I can't get this to work, I'll just end up looking like an 
idiot (that would really suck in this case because I am a CS major!! (argh!)).

Anyone... if you have been able to get DOOM to work on a network, please tell
me what is going wrong.  I don't have the resources to build an ipx.com file,
since I don't have Netware or an assembler (that's what you need, right?), so
that wouldn't work.  We have a 486DX33 and a 486DX50 with ne2000 clone cards
(16 bit 10Base2).

Thanks in advance!

Derek
ew...@ashby.cs.ucla.edu