Way to assign remote computer to a local IP?!?

Question

I've often wanted to play old games such as Descent between friends when each of us are at home. One problem: old games often DON'T support network game connections outside a local network.

Is the any software or technique I can use to map an remote ip address to a local IE 192.168.1.x address?

Answer 1

Connect the machines together by VPN:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn

Once the machines are all on the same virtual private network it will act as you wish.

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If you face your machine directly to the Internet you open your computer to direct attack.  The game play itself is not, per se, a security risk; it is instead front facement of your machine which creates the risk.

Answer 2

VPN is quite drastic. As you will encrypt all your data and it will become very slow.

If both of you are on the internet you will both have a public ip address. This address will be that of your pc if you are using a modem or that of your router.

In case it is a router, you will have to configure a feature called nat (translate a local ip to a public ip)

Having said this, I am still skeptic about the speed of the connection On a local network you get up to 10 mbps at least. On internet we are talking about what speed? (1 or 2 mbps) You can give it a try.