Setting up a ICS connection

[Nitr0]

Hello,
I am trying to setup a ICS connection between two windows xp computers and dial-up.

Currently this is how I have it setup

Dial-up connects to the computer named XP1. XP1 is connected to a router(WRT54G) XP2 is connected to the router (WRT54G)




XP1 has 192.168.0.1 as an address, XP2 has 192.168.0.2 as an address and the router is 192.168.0.10

Please keep in mind that I can share files / printers fine with this setup. I can also ping each one back and forth. There are no problems with the connection as far as I can tell.

The dial-up connects to XP1 and I have ICS enabled on XP1. Then I switch over to XP2 and run the "Setup a home or small office network" wizard. When I run this it detects that there is a connection there and allows me to choose it. When the wizard finished there is a new item in my Network Connections called "Internet Connection" When I double click this to connect, it gives a display and says Connecting, connected. Then this item disappears from the Network Connection window. Then I open up firefox and try to get on the internet and the Network Connection window displays the "Internet Connection" and disconnected. I don't know what's wrong... if someone can help me I'll be appreciative.[center]

[BMR777]

Just for the hell of it, take the router out of the picture and see if it works. You will need a crossover cable still.

BMR777

[Nitr0]

Well I thought of that too because I read that ICS assigns a static ip to the host machine. I pulled the router and put in a switch and assigned both computers an ip (the host 192.168.0.1, the secondary 192.168.0.2) I could talk to eachother and share files / printers but now the client doesn't see that the host has an ICS on it.

[Terrister]

you have to setup ICS again. Any time you change the network you have to setup ICS again.

[johnwill]

If you use a plain switch, try this: Setup ICS with the ICS wizard. Setup the client to automatically obtain an IP and DNS address. That should get it connected.

[Nitr0]

Tried both suggestions.

When I had both plugged into the switch I had it set both to DHCP. I ran the ICS wizard again on this host and it assigned the computer with a 192.168.0.1 ip and 255.255.255.0

I then went over to the client and had it also set to DHCP and ran the "setup home or small office network" wizard and the wizard didn't detect that the host had an ICS enabled, I then assigned the computer a 192.168.0.2 address and ran the wizard again, still didn't detect that an ICS was there, but I could still see shared files and printers etc.

[johnwill]

Don't assign the client anything, set it to obtain it's IP and DNS addresses automatically.

[Nitr0]

I did, nothing happened.

[johnwill]

On the client machine:

Open a DOS window and type:

IPCONFIG /ALL >C:RESULT.TXT

Open C:\RESULT.TXT with Notepad and copy/paste the entire results here.

[Nitr0]

This is with the client plugged into the hub and set to DHCP.



Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : XP2

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D4-12-D3-B6

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255

[johnwill]

An IP address of all zeros normally indicates you have a driver, TCP/IP stack, or hardware failure.

Why are you fooling around with ICS when you have a router?

[Nitr0]

Because my router doesn't support dial-up

[johnwill]

If the router is handing out IP addresses, you'll never get the proper parameters to access the Internet using ICS. If you really want to use the router, configure it like the secondary router in these instructions and configure ICS as your "primary" router.


Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together.

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router. For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!