My question pertains to the way Windows Internet Connection Sharing is setup and how it works with the Windows Firewall.
This is the best ICS article i’ve read. It explains all the little details that the Microsoft Help fails to do, such as whether the host in the service definition should be the ICS computer or the internal computer hosting the service. Windows Help says to set that value to the ICS computer, but obviously that doesn’t make sense. So anyways, thanks for clearing that up
For example, if I add a service definition in ICS to listen for TCP port XXX, then will I also have to go into the Windows Firewall settings and add that same TCP port XXX to the exceptions list? Otherwise, won’t the firewall not even acknowledge that port and drop any requests to it? Or is Windows smart enough to realize that if I add a port for ICS to listen on, it should automatically be exempt from the Firewall as well?
Thanks!