XP ICS and DSL

[Mike]

Hello, and thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.

I've just (re)set up a network with a 98, an Me and an XP
box. The XP box has two NICs, one to the Internet and one
to our Linksys router. I am trying to enable ICS on the
Internet Connection for all computers on my LAN. However,
I can't get things to work at once, i.e. if I disable the
Internet and enable the LAN, the LAN works beautifully; if
I enable the Internet and disable the LAN, the Internet
Connecion works beautifully. When both are enabled
simultaneously XP just sits there like I'm stupid.

What is going on? Am I getting IP conflicts that are
hosing the whole operation? I know XP sets the LAN card
to a static 192.168.0.1 when ICS is installed; and the
router's default IP is 192.168.1.1. Is this the problem?

As I said, thanks to anyone in advance for their time and
help.

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

In article >, "Mike"
> wrote:
>Hello, and thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.
>
>I've just (re)set up a network with a 98, an Me and an XP
>box. The XP box has two NICs, one to the Internet and one
>to our Linksys router. I am trying to enable ICS on the
>Internet Connection for all computers on my LAN. However,
>I can't get things to work at once, i.e. if I disable the
>Internet and enable the LAN, the LAN works beautifully; if
>I enable the Internet and disable the LAN, the Internet
>Connecion works beautifully. When both are enabled
>simultaneously XP just sits there like I'm stupid.
>
>What is going on? Am I getting IP conflicts that are
>hosing the whole operation? I know XP sets the LAN card
>to a static 192.168.0.1 when ICS is installed; and the
>router's default IP is 192.168.1.1. Is this the problem?
>
>As I said, thanks to anyone in advance for their time and
>help.

Your proposed setup should work using the usual subnet mask of
255.255.255.0. It wouldn't work with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 or
255.0.0.0, because the XP computer's two NICs would be in the same
subnet.

Why are you using ICS at all? Your Linksys router has a built-in
Internet sharing capability, so you can connect all three of the
computers to the router's LAN ports and forget ICS.
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