As some of you are probably aware we often have issues where the LAN servers fail to show in the in-game server browsers or HLSW (http://www.hlsw.net/) for that matter.
When this happen we tend to have to connect directly to the server via IP address:port
To make this easier for you I suggest adding the following lines to your hosts file. In most cases it can be found here ...
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc (assuming you have Windows installed on your C: drive)
Open it with notepad and copy these lines into it:
192.168.1.9 dmwlan
192.168.1.11 dmwlan2
Save your file - job done.
Now if you want to connect to a CSS server at the LAN you can open the console and type:
connect dmwlan:27015
No IP addresses to remember :)
I have set up all our server to run on the first address (.9) but the ArmA2 OA server has a tendency to hop across to any available IP so the second line is a fail safe.
I've copied this off as a text file onto my PC for anyone to impliment at the LAN
Well Done Oldie!!