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ICS with DSL, Part Deux

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by edward

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I have WIN2000 host PC connected to Earthlinks DSL service through an Intel NIC.
This works fine. My problem is when I connect my laptop with WIN98SE/IE5.0
through a hub to the second Network Everywhere/Linksys NIC on the host WIN2000
PC. Ican transfer files across this network, but cannot access the internet
from the laptop. I have used all the same equipment when I had both PCs using
WIN98SE and ICS and it worked fine. I have used the online help page on the MS
site on how to use ICS with WIN2000, but to no avail. The odd thing is, when I
enable ICS on the NIC, WIN2000 places the IP address onto the other NIC, but my
internet access continues to function on the host PC. Please help! Thanks.

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by dragon emperor

Generally Internet Access will continue to function on the host despite problems with sharing. Have you checked to make sure the laptop is set to DHCP? Do you have a firewall? If you check your IP Configuration on your notebook what is the address and what is the Gateway? Can you ping the gateway? What info do you get from IPConfig on the W2K system? What about your internet connection settings? Have you setup a lot of security on you W2K system? I just got my whole network working as desired with ICS and can understand the frustration.

by mckaytech

I think the place to start is to see if you can ping the host PC. Use IPCONFIG /ALL to see what the IP is on the second NIC and use that as the address to ping. I suspect it won't ping.

If that is the case, then run IPCONFIG on the laptop and see what it thinks the IP address is. Likely you'll find that the IP wasn't set by DHCP and as a result is not on the same subnet as the host PC card, either because you haven't enabled DHCP or it is not working properly.

Once you can ping, then if it STILL doesn't work, you need to go into the Network Settings and make sure that ICS is enabled properly so routing occurs.

The fact that it can transfer files does not necessarily mean that the IP addressing is correct because it could be using some other protocol.

Hope this gives you a start in the right direction.

paul

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