I am indeed speaking from experience. I downloaded EQEmu for the first time two days ago, checked out a few of the servers attached to gotfrags, and decided to try to get it up and running on my LAN. Now I'm no expert on LANs, and can't give you a TON of info, but here's what I did to get my two systems connected to the same server via Minilogin...
My db.ini looks like this (with my username and password edited out:
# READ README.TXT!
[Database]
host=localhost
user=xxxxxxxx
password=xxxxxxxx
database=eq
My LoginServer.ini file looks like this (where xxx.xxx.xx.xx equals the network IP of the host computer):
[LoginServer]
loginserver=xxx.xxx.xx.xx
worldname=1010101 (Private LAN Server)
locked=false
account=
password=
worldaddress=xxx.xxx.xx.xx
loginport=5999
My Boot5zones.Win9x.bat looks like this (where xxx.xxx.xx.xx equals the network IP of the host computer):
@echo off
start zone9x . xxx.xxx.xx.xx 7995 xxx.xxx.xx.xx
start zone9x . xxx.xxx.xx.xx 7996 xxx.xxx.xx.xx
REM start zone9x . xxx.xxx.xx.xx 7997 xxx.xxx.xx.xx
REM start zone9x . xxx.xxx.xx.xx 7998 xxx.xxx.xx.xx
REM start zone9x . xxx.xxx.xx.xx 7999 xxx.xxx.xx.xx
exit
cls
I REM'd out 3 of the zoneservers because with only 2 clients connected, and with us both travelling together, we never need more than 2 zones up at once, and having less seems to help performance for me.
Both systems are using this eqhost.txt (with xxx.xxx.xx.xx being the host's network IP):
[Registration Servers]
{
"xxx.xxx.xx.xx:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"xxx.xxx.xx.xx:5999"
}
I occasionally have problems with zoning unless I pre-boot the destination zone via #zonebootup, so we always do that. We both log in using the username "eqemu" and password "eqemu". Hmmm... What else might be important... Oh, both computers use Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet adapters. The hub is a (I'm quoting the box here, as I don't know alot about LANs) "5-port 10/100 Auto-Sensing Hub". The cards and hub came together as a cheap kit from Best Buy.
If anyone needs any additional information, I'd be glad to provide it.
*EDIT* - Corrected a typo
- 1010101
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