LAN helper

[Aub]

I had an impression that TCP/IP would mostly supersede this helper in functionality.

One nice feature of the helper tho is that you can turn it off and back on, reboot a machine etc. etc. - it will just pick up where it left.

I have to admit I didn't have time to download and play with tcp/ip in the gold demo yet.
Depending on how convenient tcp/ip turns out to be (e.g. how easy it is to resume games, recover from network failures, manage the players etc.) it might make sense to do some more work on the helper, or to leave it alone.

And yes, it would be easy to adapt it for some kind of net play, e.g. for using ftp. That would be similar then to the RTC you're testing for PBW, only it could use any computer on the net to store the files, not necessarily the PBW site.

Geo, did you have any other features in mind, or maybe a concrete scenario where tcp/ip turns out to be inconvenient but a helper could save the day?

Aub