emulating lan connection (WXP-Home)

[PopStevo]

hi
i'm not much into networking
so i find this situation unusual:

my friend and i have each a pc connected to the internet, but i need to convince our pcs (windows) that they are connected by lan

so is there a way to do this?
i was thinking about ip address mapping (map the other pc's public internet ip address to some local private ip address, like 192.168.x.y), but couldn't find anything on google
i also had an idea of writing a virtual lan driver, so that windows think that i actually have a lan device. that driver would then access the remote pc over the internet instead of accessing some hardware

do you maybe know if there are any programs which could help me achieve this as writing a new driver would require a lot of work...
thank you

[motoflop]

What are you trying to achieve?

You can configure your adsl/cable modem routers and windows firewall (or other firewalls) to allow your computers to access each other. I have tried that when I wanted to play Half-Life lan based game with my friend.

Here are some guidelines:
- If your computer has public ip-address (not 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x thru 172.31.x.x) you simply configure your firewalls to allow incoming traffic from that othe rpc
- For local ip addresses you need adsl/cable modem, which supports virtual servers. You configure virtual server to allow traffic from internet to your pc using local ip address

[Sohj]

I'd recommend Hamachi. It's a VPN that should do what you want. Google it.