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Setting up a LAN to play UT is quite easy. This document describes how to set up Macs, but you could have windows machines on the LAN as well, since they are all communicating via TCP/IP. Just configure the windows machines to use TCP/IP as their network protocol with the same values as the Macs and they should be able to talk to each other just fine.

For the Macs, you need to configure each TCP/IP control panel to use it's ethernet as a connection to a TCP/IP local network with unique IP's and a subnet mask. You must manually configure each TCP/IP Control Panel on each Mac. Please note that you will disable your internet services when you do this, as you are setting up manual connections with your own IP/Subnet numbers, but it is necessary in order to get this to work with as little fuss as possible. I would recommend creating a new Configuration in the TCP/IP control panel for each machine and call it "Unreal Tournament". That way it is much easier to switch from your regular "internet" settings to the UT LAN settings.

Basically, what you are going to do is build your own little network, with assigned IP's for each computer in the TCP/IP control panel.


Here are the configurations for the TCP/IP Control Panel:

	Computer One	Computer Two	Computer Three
Connet Via:	Ethernet	Ethernet	Ethernet
Configure:	Manually	Manually	Manually
IP Address:	1.1.1.1	1.1.1.2	1.1.1.3
Subnet Mask:	255.255.255.0	255.255.255.0	255.255.255.0

...and so on for as many machines as you have hooked up to the LAN, changing the IP to go up one more number each time. Start up a LAN game with one of the computers (preferably the fastest machine with the best video card! - this should be "Computer One"), and the other machines should be able to talk to it right away! Please note that I have not tested this out...but I have gotten other networks like this to work just fine, so I don't see how UT would be any different.

The IP address is pretty arbitrary, using all one's and then going incrementally up on the last digit is the easiest to remember. You can hook up 255 different machines this way! The subnet mask always needs to be the same for each computer...again, setting it to the industry default of 255.255.255.0 is the easiest way to go.