Doomwaffle on 20/9/2010 at 03:56
I've seen this problem come up multiple times before, but I have never found an answer in my searches. You guys look like you know what you know, so I'm gonna ask you!
Me and some friends want to run through SS2 and record it and put it on youtube... but that's just backstory.
I've forwarded the ports I found after searches and when I try to host, it will tell me my host IP is my local IP. Now this is fine and dandy for a LAN game, but we're all out of town from each other. How can I fix this? (our fallback is hamachi but we'd rather not deal with that, as using it for SS2 is quite a pain!) We tried to just connect thru my IP anyways, but it wasn't working.
Is there any known fix to this? Thanks!
RocketMan on 20/9/2010 at 04:41
Well I'm not sure if I'm understanding you exactly but there are 2 different IPs for your computer as you've alluded to. The internal IP is something like 192.168.1.101 or something like that and is simply a means for the router to keep track of how many computers are connected to it..it's an internal address. The external or public IP is something you can easily get from the internet. Go to google and type "my ip" and the first hit will tell you what it is. Share this with your buddy or vice versa and then you should have the info you need to set up a MP game. I think if you use the Directplay 8 wrapper mod found at Systemshock.org then it might make the proecess easier for you as I think that mod fixes problems for people behind routers...if all else fails, hamachi works every time.
