Disconnecting ICS clients

[Phlege]

Can anyone help with this?

I have ICS enabled on my XP machine to share my cable modem net connection
with three other machines on my home network.

It works fine, except my son is a P2P fiend who sometimes gobbles up all the
bandwidth. This either doesn't matter or is incredibly annoying. For those
times when connection sharing rage is likely to break out I should like to
be able to easily disconnect him with out disconnecting the whole network.

It seems that XP provides for clients to be able to disconnect the server
from the net, but not vice versa for individual clients.

Does anyone know any different?

Thanxs

Phelge


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"Phlege" > wrote in
message ...

> Can anyone help with this?
>
> I have ICS enabled on my XP machine to share my cable modem net
connection
> with three other machines on my home network.
>
> It works fine, except my son is a P2P fiend who sometimes gobbles up
all the
> bandwidth. This either doesn't matter or is incredibly annoying. For
those
> times when connection sharing rage is likely to break out I should
like to
> be able to easily disconnect him with out disconnecting the whole
network.
>
> It seems that XP provides for clients to be able to disconnect the
server
> from the net, but not vice versa for individual clients.
>
> Does anyone know any different?

[Steve Winograd]

In article >, "Phlege"
> wrote:
>Can anyone help with this?
>
>I have ICS enabled on my XP machine to share my cable modem net connection
>with three other machines on my home network.
>
>It works fine, except my son is a P2P fiend who sometimes gobbles up all the
>bandwidth. This either doesn't matter or is incredibly annoying. For those
>times when connection sharing rage is likely to break out I should like to
>be able to easily disconnect him with out disconnecting the whole network.
>
>It seems that XP provides for clients to be able to disconnect the server
>from the net, but not vice versa for individual clients.
>
>Does anyone know any different?
>
>Thanxs
>
>Phelge

Does your son's computer run XP? If so, you can send him a message,
substituting his actual computer name for "computer":

net send computer "Cool it, son!"

Is the network cabling within reach? You can unplug his cable from
the network hub or switch.
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[Phlege]

Thanxs for ur suggestions guys.

Will be 'pullin' the plug'.

P.

"Steve Winograd" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "Phlege"
> > wrote:
> >Can anyone help with this?
> >
> >I have ICS enabled on my XP machine to share my cable modem net
connection
> >with three other machines on my home network.
> >
> >It works fine, except my son is a P2P fiend who sometimes gobbles up all
the
> >bandwidth. This either doesn't matter or is incredibly annoying. For
those
> >times when connection sharing rage is likely to break out I should like
to
> >be able to easily disconnect him with out disconnecting the whole
network.
> >
> >It seems that XP provides for clients to be able to disconnect the server
> >from the net, but not vice versa for individual clients.
> >
> >Does anyone know any different?
> >
> >Thanxs
> >
> >Phelge
>
> Does your son's computer run XP? If so, you can send him a message,
> substituting his actual computer name for "computer":
>
> net send computer "Cool it, son!"
>
> Is the network cabling within reach? You can unplug his cable from
> the network hub or switch.
> --
> Best Wishes,
> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>
> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
> for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>
> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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