I'm hoping you guys have already found this but my friends and I use VPN to play IPX/SPX games over the internet. It's easy to do in Win2k and it lets you use spawned installs to play your favorite games. We have used Dungeon Keeper, Starcraft, Dungeon Keeper2, and are looking into others.

Just set up one Win2k pc to allow incoming VPN connections and then set up the others to connect to it via "tunneling" through the net. It is somewhat slower than normal but at least you get multiplayer support over the internet from a game you may not have been able to do it with before.

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My Rig:
1.2Ghz Athlon @133FSB
256MB RAM
Cheetah 15k RPM SCSI (boot drive and games)
2 IBM Ultrastars RAID 0(MP3 and bulk storage)
Plextor SCSI CD Equipment
Asus 6600 Pure SGRAM GeForce
SB Live Platinum

Of course with Starcraft you could just download your own personal server from http://www.FSGS.com that lets you play over tcp/ip like on battle.net. Should run a little faster playing than through a VPN tunnel. :-)

Could someone please give me a description of how to do this on XP? (With dungeon keeper 1 preferably but i could pobably work tht out)

Thanks a Lot

Ian