As others already said, I don't see why you don't use good old TCP/IP. I haven't used IPX/SPX in the last 10 years or so. Direct PC to PC communication worked just fine with TCP/IP out of the box, even in the Win95 days. Games wise, I doubt many games require such an outdated protocol (not that I follow games, but requiring that nowadays would be blatant stupidity at best) - unless you're playing some very old stuff (Commander Keen over IPX anyone?

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) Hamachi doesn't require IPX/SPX either. It'll support/tunnel it, but it doesn't need it whatsoever. Even Novell NetWare (the ONLY reason why I could see someone want to use IPX for nowadays -- not that I'd use NetWare) got TCP/IP support (as primary/prefferred protocol, I mean) with v5, almost 10 years ago.

Using IPX nowadays is like using Token Ring instead of Ethernet. Both were great technologies in their day (I very much liked NetWare 3. Hana Hetalia Mmd Models. 12 back then), but much water has flown under the bridge since then. I'm looking forward to IPv6 some day (adoption has been VERY SLOW to say the least, mainly because of NAT). Intimus 250cc Manual more.