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[*Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_III:_The_Frozen_Throne) is an expansion pack for the tower defense game *Warcraft III* by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in 2003. This article will explain how to get multiplayer gameplay working on Linux.
The game provides two options for multiplayer: "LAN" and "battle.net". The LAN option will work out of the box if all players are on the same physical subnet and the broadcast address is working properly. The "battle.net" option, which allows multiplayer over the open internet, is slightly more complicated because Blizzard has shut down the original *Warcraft III* multiplayer servers. Therefore, for this option to work:
The game provides two options for multiplayer: "LAN" and "battle.net". The LAN option will work out of the box if all players are on the same subnet (broadcast traffic is routed properly). The "battle.net" option, which allows multiplayer over the open internet, is slightly more complicated because Blizzard has shut down the original *Warcraft III* multiplayer servers. Therefore, for this option to work:
1. [One player must set up a PvPGN server at a publicly reachable, static IPv4 address.](#host-instructions)
2. [All players must patch Warcraft III to use that server instead of the default.](#client-instructions)
3. Then, either: