Two Players at same IP address

[dcook]

My wife wants to play everquest again. Her username is acook. May we have an IP exception for us both play at the same time?

Thank you

(I know this looks suspicious because I just posted a thread where I wanted to box. But really, it is for her and not me. She just got home from work and saw me playing and said that she would like to play again also)

[Nitholias01]

go to the petition section, read the rules, then post for ip exemption in there.... also dont put your login info on forums....

[cd288]

This can’t be real lol

[Lune]

acook sounds an awful lot like dcook. Your wife have the same taste in usernames or just a more accomplished chef?

It is my understanding that Project 1999 prohibits multiple instances of EverQuest running at the same time.

This is what I like to do. Does anyone know of a project that allows this?

Yikes

[madgarin]

Maybe cook is the last name and the A and D are first names? Never mind, that is just stupid. Whatever happened to b and c cook? *Mitch Hedburg voice* Who can play at a time like this-People are missing.

[Whyt]

I have a feeling gms will be making you two do figure 8's fairly often lol

[skyfoxnz85]

How did you find a wife that willing to play P99? does she have sister? :D

[Wwen42]

How can you have the same IP from two PCs? It seems like it would be easier to get two IPs than to request an IP exception. Are you using a router?

[DMN]

https://i.imgur.com/y7elp.jpg

[Poetic]

How can you have the same IP from two PCs? It seems like it would be easier to get two IPs than to request an IP exception. Are you using a router?

Just for clarity, here is a quick explanation. The two computers do have different ips, but the ips they have are referred to as private ip addresses; typically something like 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.1.255 range (not always). The two computers are thebln connected to your router which acts as the gateway with a 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 ip address.

Now your router also has a public ip address which is given to you by your internet service provider. Public ips are unique and a residential house typically only has 1, unless you pay extra. If you get into each computer and google search ipchicken, you will see the same public up address; whereas is you go into cmd and use the command ipconfig, you will see a different private ip that is assigned to you via your router.

Your router communicates to your isp via your public ip and routes traffic to your internal home local network (nat traversal)...or port forwarding.

What project1999 prevents is more than 1 MAC address per public ip.. so in order to play with 2 computers in the same household you are forced to request an ip exemption according to the rules.

This can be a explained much better and way more in depth, but I am on my cell phone.

[dcook]

Just for clarity, here is a quick explanation. The two computers do have different ips, but the ips they have are referred to as private ip addresses; typically something like 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.1.255 range (not always). The two computers are thebln connected to your router which acts as the gateway with a 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 ip address.

Now your router also has a public ip address which is given to you by your internet service provider... ( rest of the post was deleted for brevity)

This can be a explained much better and way more in depth, but I am on my cell phone.

This IP masking has to be done because currently there are way more machines using IP addresses than are available under the scheme xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. The entire ranges 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255, 172.16. 0.0 to 172.31. 255.255, and 192.168. 0.0 to 192.168. 255.255 have been set aside to be private and not used in the outside world. Internet providers (and most companies) will use these addresses internally and do address translation to a public IP that has been assigned to them when a computer needs to reach the outside world. Through the magic of IP ports, multiple machines on an internal network may actuly be using the same public IP address.

[dcook]

How did you find a wife that willing to play P99? does she have sister? :D

Yes, she has two sisters. But believe me, I got the very best one.

But regrettably, since she is working now, she has decided that she does not have the time to play :< But 20 years ago, when she wasn't working and we did not have our daughter, we had a great time.

It is funny, while I was writing about having a daughter now, she came to the computer room door asking where her breakfast was.