What is "ipxnet start" supposed to achieve?

DosBox Guide to Multiplayer Games

Yeah - it is ipxnet startserver

shouldn't crash though

Yeah, MiniMax "IPXNET startserver"

Why should not? Maybe someone know how it to test? So, is anyone, who may to develop this error? I'm advanced user, i'm not low level programmer.

h-a-l-9000, error like last, happened when i try to connect with direct COM-port connection.

ipx isn't com port connection

Qbix, please read this topic, again. I'm doesn't talk that IPX connected through or with virtual COM port. I talk about serial connection. I try connect the game with NULL-MODEM mode, and the game hungs like in last cases. I'm talk about -->IT.

I'm sorry for my English.

b0s - please repost the autoexec section and the serial port section from your dosbox.conf file. From both PC's please.

Hello, all again. Sorry that i don't answer, all this time. So, before i give some data from serial parametrs, i must to say that and in case when i try to connect with the MODEM emulator, and in case when i try to connect with the IPX, and i try to connect with the SERIAL, when, how I think, must be showen some Lan Lobby of Warcraft, to choose some map, error hapened. And this Error, hapened in all of this cases, and always equally. I'm talk about CR2 descriptor, that showing with develop info of dos/4gw every time when this error hapened.

Modem connection:
- First computer (Server)

1    [modem] 
2     modem=true 
3     comport=2 
4     listenport=23
5    [serial]
6     serial2=modem listenport:23
7    [autoexec]
8     # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
9     @echo off
10     mount c C:\games >nul
11     c:
12     cd w2_tod
13     war2

- Second computer (Client)

1    [modem] 
2     modem=true 
3     comport=2 
4     listenport=23
5    [serial]
6     serial2=modem listenport:23
7    [autoexec]
8     # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
9     @echo off
10     mount c C:\games >nul
11     c:
12     cd w2_tod
13     war2

you can't use startserver on both pcs.
one has to connect.

IPX connection:
- First computer (Server)

1    [ipx]
2     # ipx -- Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.
3     ipx=true
4    [autoexec]
5     # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
6     @echo off
7     mount c C:\games >nul
8     ipxnet startserver >nul
9     c:
10     cd w2_tod
11     war2

- Second computer (Client)

1    [ipx]
2     # ipx -- Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.
3     ipx=true
4    [autoexec]
5     # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
6     @echo off
7     mount c C:\games >nul
8     ipxnet connect 192.168.1.6 >nul
9     c:
10     cd w2_tod
11     war2

Sorry, Obix. I make mistake when copy info from exchange buffer

b0s - when you have problems it is a bad idea to use >nul to hide the result of the commands. And you should also not start war2 automatically. You should enter the command war2 yourself when you have read the output from the mount and the ipxnet commands.

Before you start war2, try the commands ipxnet status and ipxnet ping and see if the 2 PC's are connected.

Serial connection:
- First computer (Server)

1     [serial]
2     serial2=nullmodem server
3     [autoexec] 
4     # Lines in this section will be run at startup. 
5     @echo off 
6     mount c C:\games >nul 
7     c: 
8     cd w2_tod 
9     war2 

- Second computer (Client)

1     [serial]
2     serial2=nullmodem
3    [autoexec] 
4     # Lines in this section will be run at startup. 
5     @echo off 
6     mount c C:\games >nul 
7     ipxnet connect 192.168.1.6 >nul 
8     c: 
9     cd w2_tod 
10     war2 

I doing it without nul, and all okey. Connection is okey. Please don't seek errors in autoexec. All wrote rightly, there. I'm sure.

Because I say, that error in all cases is equally.

I think i knowing DOS goodly, I check it out. All right. How you think, why the game must hung when ipx or serial or modem, or something else not allowed if in game prepared some variations of reactions if this protocol is not allowed. I think there is no problem. I think the problem may be in game, or in DosBox emulation.

I'm say it with all respect to developers and moderators.

> serial2=nullmodem server
that's wrong but anyways:

Appears to be a problem with your Warcraft version. Mine does not crash at all when choosing multiplayer.

> russificied (russian translated) version of War2
Is this a official Blizzard version or was it done by "Haxxorz"?

It is version russificied by some S.P.K group. So i find, full version, of this russian WC, and try it. All is worked rightly. You're right, h-a-l-9000. It is happened, i think, 'cos, bugversion has patched to working without CD.

And in two. Wacraft have a problem, with KeyRus russificator of code page. When KeyRus is loaded in memory, warcraft in begin of start, shows dos/4gw develop info, like in later cases, but it info differs.