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Althanis   10-18-2004 at 09:33:03 PM

Hi, I'm having some problems sharing the internet connection on a 2 comupter LAN with a crossover cable. The computer with the internect connection is running Windows XP with SP2 newly installed. The other one has Win2000.

I set the XP machine IP address as the required 192.168.0.1 and set the connection to be shared across the network.

On the 2000 machine I put the IP address to automatically be retreived.

The computers are also on the same workgroup.

These settings cause the computers to be unable to communicate with each other, they can't be pinged by IP address or host name.

However, when I assign the 2000 computer with a static IP address, they can communicate with each other, but the 2000 computer can't get on to the internet.

The first setting used to work before I installed SP2, could this be the problem? Can anyone help me please??

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folken   10-19-2004 at 05:40:38 PM
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You MUST have static ip's when using a crossover. here is a little layout of what it should/could look like, this assumes you have a broadband connection but it is about the same if you have dialup.
1st machine:
NIC1-WAN IP assigned by isp
Connection made on NIC1 should be the one shared.
NIC2-192.168.0.1, 255.255.255.0, (no default gateway), (primary and secondary dns should be what ever the dns servers for your isp are)

2nd Machine:
NIC1-192.168.0.2, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.0.1, (primary and secondary dns should be what ever the dns servers for your isp are)

You can find out your isp's dns servers by going to a command prompt on the machine connected to the internet and running ipconfig /all

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Dev   10-20-2004 at 09:02:16 PM
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Using ICS you should _not_ have a static IP on the client nor the internal interface. Both shoud be set to DHCP and ICS does the rest.
ICS automagically sets up a little dhcp server on the internal interface. Whether or not one is using X-cable has nothing to do with it.
DNS and Gateway will be set by ICS to the ICS host.

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