LAN Server Tip

[OldBloke]

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 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.

[Gone_Away]

I've copied this off as a text file onto my PC for anyone to impliment at the LAN

Well Done Oldie!!