[wurmy]

Ok here is my problem.
I have an airport base station, and iBook and an XP system.
My iBook connects with a wireless card, my xp system plugs into the LAN connection on the base station.
That works fine for a basic internet connection but when I try to use Gamespy to connect to a multiplayer game (in this instance MOHAA) Gamespy detects that I am behind a proxy and the connection to the game server times out.
The airport gets the real IP and distributes 10.x.x.x to the iBook and XP system.
I noticed in the airport utility it gave me the option of turning off sharing ips and turning distributing a set of ips. I am assuming that it still will only let me distribute internal ips. Is there something I can do to get around this and have my xp machine have a normal ip address? Or at least pretend to?

Thanks for your help,
wurmy

[ghporter]

Gamespy seems to give a lot of people problems. I don't think their software is really up to the challenges they give it. Do you have problems with any other types of connections? Can you share files between the machines?

[wurmy]

nevermind it seemed to have miraculously started working after i tried accessing the multiplayer from inside the game...hmm. oh well at least it works.
Thanks though.

[ghporter]

That's one of the fix actions-it goes around Gamespy's servers/software/revenue source and works like the game is expecting.