win 2k peer to peer w/98

You will make your life much easier if you can put an inexpensive Linksys or D-Link router ($100 to $200) at the interface rather than the W2K box. The router is designed to share connections, and provides your LAN with DHCP and DNS.

Good luck.

Greetings,

Internet Routers are a great and easy way to share a single internet connection:

http://www.netgear.com/routers_main.asp

You could also do it with a software product, WinProxy, for example:

http://www.winproxy.com/

WinGate:

http://www.wingate.com/

SyGate:

http://www.sygate.com/

(REMOVE SPACES if any snuck into the pasted URLs.)

Good luck,

MAxwell

infect in a a router from dlink or linksys. the router is a dhcp server and also a limited firewall to protect your computer while on the internet. The proformance is great and very easy to install/setup.
Either that or install a additional nic on your win2k computer and configure the new nic on the same subnet as the win98 michine and configure the remote access and routing protocal service. The exturnal router is of couse the best solution.

Right. I take it you had Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) working accross the 98 machines?

If so, take it off whichever machine was running it, and set it up on the 2k box. If you have it on 2, you'll get problems, and the 2k box will be much more stable, and probably newer so it will cope with the load better.

Once the connection is set up and working on the 2k box, shut down all the 98 machines, then restart them. This should get them their new IP addresses (make sure they are set to DHCP, not static in network control panel). If they can't see the net, then click start/run and type winipcfg and then click release all, then renew.

You should find it works, provided that the 2k machine sharing the connection stays up all the time, or is at least started up and connected when the Windows 98 machines boot up.

Right. I take it you had Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) working accross the 98 machines?

If so, take it off whichever machine was running it, and set it up on the 2k box. If you have it on 2, you'll get problems, and the 2k box will be much more stable, and probably newer so it will cope with the load better.

Once the connection is set up and working on the 2k box, shut down all the 98 machines, then restart them. This should get them their new IP addresses (make sure they are set to DHCP, not static in network control panel). If they can't see the net, then click start/run and type winipcfg and then click release all, then renew.

You should find it works, provided that the 2k machine sharing the connection stays up all the time, or is at least started up and connected when the Windows 98 machines boot up.

What you need to install is a router instead of having in your pc all the "router like software".
A REouter is a device ($300) that allows all your machines to share a single exit point to another location. In your case, internet.
Once instaled, all you have to do is configure w98 defalut's gateway ip address, to point to the "lan side" of the router.

Hope it helps!!!