sorry, posted this in multiplayer but couldn't help but notice that forum had 99 replies and this one has 30,000.

i'm trying to get some multiplayer games off using dosbox but i can't get the nullmodem feature to work. i've read every page i could find regarding how to do it (including the ones found here), and i've followed them to a T.

i've tried adding the server:<ip> addition and so has my friend. neither seems to work.

i've done the ipx tunneling thing too, but to no avail.

i'm not computer savvy so i may be missing something obvious, but be assured that i've followed all instructions carefully thus far.

when i try to ping my friends IP or he tries mine, we get the connection timed out. when i try "serial1 nullmodem servier:xxxxx" in dosbox, i get "connectioned failed", as does he.

is this a firewall issue or something? a port issue? i tried turning off windows firewall and my friend still couldn't ping me.

let me know what the relevant facts are and i'll give them to you. thanks in advance.