Statikk Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Has anyone attempted (or succeeded) in running x-box system link games over a normal VPN (not xbconnect, x-box gateway, or gamespy)?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_87 Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Whats a vpn? :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted December 12, 2002 Subscriber² Share Posted December 12, 2002 Whats a vpn? :blush: virtual private network :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebaz Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 vpn = Virtual private network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_87 Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Sorry, I don't know how a VPN works, so I cannot help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 havent tried it but im skeptical about it. dont see how it can work if it is not recognized as a PC and therefore cant join the VPN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briangw Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 havent tried it but im skeptical about it. dont see how it can work if it is not recognized as a PC and therefore cant join the VPN Yeah, but isn't a VPN controlled by modem language? I would think that you could probably fool the VPN into thinking the XBox was like a PC, via some boot CD. I don't really know, but I would imagine it could be done. After all, we have products like VPC out on the market to fool the Pc into thinking it has various OS's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 yeah mabey if you mod it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statikk Posted December 13, 2002 Author Share Posted December 13, 2002 Sorry it took me so long to reply to my own topic lol and btw thanks for everyone's feedback! The way I see it is x-box connect, x-box gateway, and the gamespy x-box stuff are all just creating a tunnel between the hosting computer and the client computers that allows the x-box to communicate through them just like they were connected on the same network. Someone correct me if im wrong but that just sounds like a broad definition of VPNs. You wouldn't need your x-box to be recognized as a PC bc when you connect to a VPN are netowork resources from that site are available to you just as if you were actually connected. Anyone see where im going with this? Well I do intend to try experimenting with this, but it might be awhile bc im realy busy lately. Any other thoughts\ideas from everyone are appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted December 13, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 13, 2002 yeah mabey if you mod it out Then it wouldn't work over XBox Live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statikk Posted December 13, 2002 Author Share Posted December 13, 2002 I don't see what a mod would have to do with running over a VPN at all really though. You don't need to change the way the x-box communicates with other x-boxes you just need to get it to run through a VPN tunnel which I believe would be changing things on the client\server PCs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wired57 Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 ahhhhhhh, but if you set up a vpn connectrion on both systems then conntect the bothand have the browse lan on, I think you would be able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statikk Posted December 13, 2002 Author Share Posted December 13, 2002 wired knows what i'm talkin bout :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wired57 Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 wired knows what i'm talkin bout :D :D yeah, I leave the vpn software running all the time on my win2k dedicated server. so I know what your talking about if I had an xbox, I would test it out and see if it worked, however I don't so I really can't help much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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