Okay, I have revamped the IPX server. It still uses the same packets as before. Playing Doom with two copies on my local machine (with using my new server code and the default build) works good enough. I also stressed tested it overnight with connecting at random intervals (between 100ms and 10s). …

Well, I have re-done the server code, and I'm pretty sure everything is done, except that I'm pretty sure SDL_Net doesn't support blocking UDP calls.

Are you saying that /home/Kanto/oldgames is so much better than C:\Documents and Settings\Kanto\Desktop\oldgames?

Poking at the source, I'm wondering why the client table is a fixed array. Is there a hard cap of 16 clients or something on IPX? If not, then I'll change that to a linked list. I'm also implementing a timeout as well as slowing down the polling of the socket. @Snover: the problem is still that the …

My Computer -> Local Disk (C:)

Well, it sounds like a problem with the server code. Maybe it could be changed to fix the problems? I'm not too keen on running a GUI based server, since my box doesn't have X installed.

I'd like to have this sharing as much code as the base build; in case the IPX system ever gets updated, all that needs to happen is a CVS update, maybe a diff, and recompile. Java/GUI also makes it bigger and more complex than I'd like.

While the IPX over UDP feature currently works well enough, I was thinking of making a permanent IPX server using one of my server boxes. As far as I know, there is no easy way of simply run DOSBox as a command-line, IPX only system with minimal overhead. I felt that creating a standalone daemon …