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ICS with XP pro and a router
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| Joelacrane 2005-06-26, 12:30 am |
| I decided to use a faster computer for my internet gateway, so i go my eMachines working again and installed XP Pro on it. I uninstalled ICS on the old 98se machine so it could become a client.
I then left DHCP disabled on my D-link router, and lefts it's IP address as 192.168.0.2 so that my new gateway could use 192.168.0.1 .
Well, i got everything set up, but i cannot get my new gateway to connect to the wireless network UNLESS i re-enable DHCP on the router! The moment that i disable it, the connection is lost. My other wireless clients still pick up the SSID, but they obviously have invalid ip addresses.
I am assuming that my new XP gateway will want to provide IP addresses?!
I bought a router instead of an Acess point because im hoping DSL will soon become avalible here. I am currently using dial-up. | |
| Joelacrane 2005-06-26, 1:01 am |
| now i cannot get the pc to see the network at all! | |
| curiousgeorge 2005-06-26, 1:55 am |
| Let your router handle everything. Set all clients for DHCP and enable DHCP on your router. The router is meant to handle all of that. | |
| Joelacrane 2005-06-26, 2:54 am |
| yes, i know thats how it should be, its a ROUTER so it must be for that... But wont XP start complaining about it? Windows 98 sure did! i got it working now, but im afraid if i restart my gatway it will do the same thing again! | |
| acruth7284 2005-06-26, 3:50 am |
| Did you check which address range that is available in the router when you disable DHCP? I know my linksys router defaults to address above x.x.x.100 (thus if yours is the the same 192.168.0.1 would not be valid for the network period). | |
| curiousgeorge 2005-06-26, 2:05 pm |
| XP will only complain if you're trying to run ICS on it. Your router will handle everything. You don't need to set up ICS or DHCP on the XP machine. | |
| acruth7284 2005-06-26, 3:40 pm |
| That will work once he gets DSL, but for now he is running dial up and the router can't be setup to handle the dial up connection (unless it is a dial up router which I am assuming it isn't). | |
| demetry 2005-06-27, 5:38 pm |
| I hate to recomend away from ICS because I gather that you are wanting to practice using ICS as part of Microsoft learning on these forums...
My past experience with ICA is that it was picky about locking the IP addresses that can be shared behind the scenes and if you manipulate the IP address by hand it stops sharing the connection... I do not remember the full reason for this and I do remember a KB article discussing the very confusing method to use static addresses with ICS and or allowing a DHCP server from a different machine... tough to work it out, long story short... I gave up because I was being paid by the hour to resolve a solution in a small office to share a dial up.
I used AnalogX as a proxy instead and avoided ICS because it was easier. The wireless router should be used for addressing (DHCP) and then once the wireless Lan is happy and working, setup AnalogX as a proxy on the dial-up machine and then point all gateway setting on your PC's to the AnalogX proxy. I think that a Microsoft ISA, proxy2 or SMB dial-up share server would fit in nicely and be good practice however and stay with Microsoft and you might request a demo version from Microsoft for practice but in the meanwhile you might look into the AnalogX free proxy.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/dow...twork/proxy.htm |
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