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by jeftecknt

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I know I have been asking alot of questions lately, but here is another. I am a student and I have the assignment of putting together a NAT W/ICS at home. I use AOL broadband on a PPPoE network, I have a DELL 8200 p4@2ghz and an AMD k62@300mhz, I have a NIC in both. I have a P2p "Network" set up between the two. All is good there. Due to the PPPoE I wasnt able to set up ICS using just software ( I should mention that I had a 16 port switch in place to connect the two systems. ) SO my instructorbought me a small router/brouter, it is a compusa DSL Broadband router, which has an internal 4port switch, so now I have my small p2p up and running with that. I have set the router up for PPPoE but when I try to connect through the router I am unable to, ie: --->TA--->router---->NIC. I am able to connect otherwise ie: TA---->NIC. Also when I connect and do an IPCONFIG /all, I get a different IP, Gateway and DNS number everytime I connect. I am not sure how to configure the router for this. I hope this is enough information but if anyone needs more I will happily supply it. I am lost.

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by jeftecknt

As it turns out, my ISP has switched to a WANminiport type of protocol. I know even less about this than I do about PPPoE. So any links to info on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

Juda

by ranman60

You did not mention the operating systems on the 2 computers. If either computer is using win2k or xp for the operating system, you don't really need a router.
All you have to do is to connect on of the machines to your ISP using the software that came with the dsl or using windows native broadband setup (with xp). When you are connected with machine #1, then share that connection with win2k or xp internet connection sharing to connect via lan on the other machine.

Are you using static ip addresses or dhcp on your peer to peer?

by dustyd

Your router should be configurable to setup your username/password when you connect to AOL. Mine is accessed by using html, with an IP of 192.168.1.1 You should also be able to specify the DNS server addresses. Set your router to be your DHCP server. It will assign IP's in the 192.168.1.xxx range to your machines. Your DSL modem will supply the AOL-assigned IP address to the router. This is not really NAT, but is the only way I know of using your existing setup.

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