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by mshighlander70

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I have a PC with WinXp, having acsess to Internet through dial-up connection. Each computer in LAN has IP adress (from 192.168.1.1 (Above pc)-up to 255 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0).When I try to setup sharing Internet connectionon, pc with WinXp changes its IP adress to 192.168.0.1. Why it's happen ?
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by bughunter

192.168.0.1 is the default for the ICS server. You can change the default IP but I would recommend keeping it and changing the client IP addresses. I know changing the client IP would be inconvenient if you have a lot of clients but since the OS expects to use the 192.168.0.X subnet for ICS I would stick with it.

by jabulani

This is the way ICS id designed, when you turn it on the adapter which connects to the internet is reconfigured with static IP address of 192.168.0.1. It is also autoconfigured to issue addresses via DHCP in the range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 and to relay DNS requests.

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