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October 7th 09, 05:30 PM
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Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Firewall
This is an intermittent problem re. ICS and Windows Firewall:
1. connect 2 laptops, both running XP Pro, with yellow crossover cable or connected thru a hub 2. set host to Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). It forces the Local Area Connection onto 192.168.0.1 3. set client to Obtain an IP Address automatically 4. files and other shared resources are visible on both laptops ... so far so good! 5. host can access the Internet fine 6. client accesses the Internet half the time ... the other half, I get Page Not Found! 7. When client cannot get to the Internet, I go to Windows Firewall: Advanced tab: uncheck Local Area Connection (LAC). Internet is then immediately accessible from the client! Then, I can recheck Local Area Connection in the Firewall, and continue Internet access from the client! --- I have had this happen now on 2 different and unrelated LAN's. One used a hub ... the other a crossover cable. It all makes no sense. Why does it work sometimes and not others? Why after failing, does unchecking, then rechecking the Firewall LAC fix it? Maybe I need to just go with another firewall. Any suggestions on a good cheap or free one? Thanks everyone! Henry 
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October 7th 09, 05:52 PM
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Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Firewall
1. Why are you still using ICS?
2. You couldn't find any more newsgroups to post to? --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est HTFiddler wrote: This is an intermittent problem re. ICS and Windows Firewall: 1. connect 2 laptops, both running XP Pro, with yellow crossover cable or connected thru a hub 2. set host to Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). It forces the Local Area Connection onto 192.168.0.1 3. set client to Obtain an IP Address automatically 4. files and other shared resources are visible on both laptops ... so far so good! 5. host can access the Internet fine 6. client accesses the Internet half the time ... the other half, I get Page Not Found! 7. When client cannot get to the Internet, I go to Windows Firewall: Advanced tab: uncheck Local Area Connection (LAC). Internet is then immediately accessible from the client! Then, I can recheck Local Area Connection in the Firewall, and continue Internet access from the client! --- I have had this happen now on 2 different and unrelated LAN's. One used a hub ... the other a crossover cable. It all makes no sense. Why does it work sometimes and not others? Why after failing, does unchecking, then rechecking the Firewall LAC fix it? Maybe I need to just go with another firewall. Any suggestions on a good cheap or free one? Thanks everyone! Henry
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October 7th 09, 07:33 PM
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Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Firewall
the cross over cable can be used
to connect two computers together via the lan connection "or" connect the modem to the router. from the router to the computers should be ol'regular network cables. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "HTFiddler" wrote in message ... This is an intermittent problem re. ICS and Windows Firewall: 1. connect 2 laptops, both running XP Pro, with yellow crossover cable or connected thru a hub 2. set host to Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). It forces the Local Area Connection onto 192.168.0.1 3. set client to Obtain an IP Address automatically 4. files and other shared resources are visible on both laptops ... so far so good! 5. host can access the Internet fine 6. client accesses the Internet half the time ... the other half, I get Page Not Found! 7. When client cannot get to the Internet, I go to Windows Firewall: Advanced tab: uncheck Local Area Connection (LAC). Internet is then immediately accessible from the client! Then, I can recheck Local Area Connection in the Firewall, and continue Internet access from the client! --- I have had this happen now on 2 different and unrelated LAN's. One used a hub ... the other a crossover cable. It all makes no sense. Why does it work sometimes and not others? Why after failing, does unchecking, then rechecking the Firewall LAC fix it? Maybe I need to just go with another firewall. Any suggestions on a good cheap or free one? Thanks everyone! Henry
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