[sponsored links] gamebridge / xboxbridge Last Updated: Thursday, March 30, 2006, 03:40 PM PST gamebridge and xboxbridge are tools for creating private game console networks over the internet. To install this software, you will need a PC running Linux or BSD with libpcap and libnet installed. Your game console must be connected to the controlling PC via a hub, or directly to a second network card in the PC with a crossover cable. gamebridge is a generalized tool that listens for user-configurable traffic on a local network, (usually broadcast UDP data), then transports that data to user-configurable remote ip addresses. At the remote end, gamebridge accepts the incoming traffic and injects it back into the local network. gamebridge can be configured to mesh multiple ip addresses together in a peer-to-peer configuration, or a centralized copy of the program can be configured to act as a relay, serving a number of clients, (in a client-server, or "star", configuration). xboxbridge is a shell script that uses gamebridge to connect two or more Xbox consoles. You can download the tools, (version 1.0 beta), here: gamebridge-1.0b.tar.gz Please note that this is a beta release. I have not done much testing except to verify that simple traffic is transported over my local network. Send feedback and fixes to: fitz@jfitz.com. To install, execute the following commands in the download folder:  gunzip gamebridge-1.0b.tar.gz  tar xvf gamebridge-1.0b.tar  cd gamebridge-1.0b  more README.TXT The README.TXT file contains further instructions on installing and running the programs.