IPX multiplayer gaming in dosemu

[Eemeli Kantola <ekantola@welho.com>]

I did some testing with multiplayer games under dosemu. With IPX 
networking, there were some serious issues that I was unable to solve. 
This is a list of the tested games and the test results I got:


Carmageddon, Warcraft 2 (original), Death Rally: IPX multiplaying seems 
to work first, but servers are invisible to other players. (All these 
games are somewhat similar in starting a multiplayer game - I wonder if 
this has something to do with it?)

Grand Theft Auto, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Quake: IPX multiplaying works 
but lags too much to be playable :(

Duke3d: Something wicked happened after starting to the game host, and 
other players could do nothing.

Ultimate Tapan Kaikki (freeware, downloadable at least from 
http://www.acid-play.com/download/Ultimate_Tapan_Kaikki.php): Crashes 
with dos4gw division by zero error when starting multiplayer. Could be a 
problem with the game, though...


I could get all of them work in single player mode quite perfectly 
(although sound is a bit problematic with some), and multiplayer is 
proven to work under native MS-DOS (and Win9x). But has somebody had any 
success in dosemu IPX multiplaying with these (or any other games)? Do I 
possibly need to load some DOS network drivers in addition to dosemu IPX 
support?


Parts of my configuration that supposedly are relevant:

Module ipx loaded

$ ifconfig
           ...
           IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:0008C7FAFB49
           ...

.dosemurc: $_ipxsupport = (on)

Running xdosemu as root


-Eemeli