Internet Connection Sharing

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<br />I want to try these things, but for some reason my 2 xp machines can't see each other. You think it could be because each machine has a firewall installed?
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most probably, just tell the firewall's to assume your your local subnet (192.168.0.0/24 or whatever) is trusted. Doing this depends vastly on the software you're using as a firewall.

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I've totally uninstalled Zonealarm because I don't think the free version works on networks. Now I can ping from the client pc and I can tracert, but it still won't open web pages and download mail. I've tried that Dr TCP as well, no luck.
 
Jhbgirl,

It's your MTU settings. Seems your router/connection sharing PC does not clamp the MTU down to the line specs. You'll most probably have to alter the MTU on the XP machines to 1412.

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Try PPPShare. My knowledge of networking is very little, so I rely on easy solutions, and PPPShare solved my problem 1st time. It is designed for people like me:)
 
Yes it is.

PPPshar is a proxy server that enables you to share a single Internet connection of any type (Dialup TCP/IP, ISDN, ADSL, Cable modem, DirectPC or Ethernet connection) among several computers in a network. PPPshar is small, light weight, very easy to setup and use. All Internet services like Email, WWW, FTP, Telnet and even ICQ, Real Audio/Video are preconfigured for ease of use.

Cable modem & DSL connection sharing, AOL satellite & DSL connection sharing, one-way/telco return connection sharing, two-way satellite connection sharing, PPPoE and PPPoA connection sharing and more possible with PPPshar.
 
Do you install PPPShare on the host pc? Does the client pc also need it installed or does it pick up the settings from the other pc?
 
A Proxy server is fine for browsing the web and downloading, but how are you gonna play UT2k4 or Quake3 from the client PCs? [;)]

Jhbgirl, Install it only on the Gateway and set your proxy settings on the client PCs

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I installed it on the host (gateway) and set the proxy settings on the client pc.
 
YAY! I installed it and are managing to browse and email. Just battling a bit with socks5 and dns, it's required for mirc and msn to work. Reading through the help now :P I asked Sentech for their dns address which is 66.18.65.115 but isn't there supposed to be a secondary address?
 
Just a PPPShare question..

On the client pc, on some websites i get a popup that asks for a password. It looks something like this :

Password needed - Networking
Firewall: /192.168.0.1
Realms: SOCKS

Does anyone know what I do with this? Only firewall I have atm on my machine is the normal xp one. Is it that that's doing this?
 
Connection problems[?]

What seems to work reasonably well is to unplug the modem USB connector, wait a few seconds, plug it back in and the XP logon will automatically kick in (after detecting the modem) and log on (usually) at first attempt.
 
I didn't have any problems with Internet Connection Sharing, using two PCs running Windows XP Home.

Primary: Connected directly to Sentech modem via USB.
Secondary: Connecting via primary by using Internet Connection Sharing.

One thing you have to do though is create a little batch (.bat) file on the secondary machine, that you have to run after the Sentech modem has disconnected and reconnected, or if you switched the secondary machine on before the primary. Place the following two statements in the batch file:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Once that has run, you shouldn't have any problems getting data on the secondary machine.

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I think XP ICS configures primary as DHCP server, so if you boot the secondary first it doesn't get an IP address from the primary machine, in which case XP usually generates one of those 'random' ones (that will be on a different subnet, so TCP/IP won't work between the two).

I've found though that it is possible with Windows ICS to change to static IP addresses AFTER setting up ICS, and it seems to still work fine. (Static IPs on both machines, same subnet address, with primary's IP set up as 'default gateway' on secondary, and DNS's real IP set on both). Then it shouldn't matter what order you boot the two, and you won't need the batch file (i.e. the ipconfig /renew stuff to get an IP from primary).

That was Win2K as primary though, I don't know if it is still possible with XP as primary, but I see no real reason why it shouldn't be.
 
Is there any way to split the bandwidth for each LAN user? ie. for 256kbps - 4 PC lan, split to 64kbps per computer. That is, a maximum of 64kbps. This provides efficient sharing and also prevents one person from "hogging" the full pipe. Furthermore, can these limits provide bursting ie. if only one person is online they get the full 256 but when another makes a request his/her 64kbps is then separated and guaranteed thus reducing 256-&gt;192 for the other user.

How can the above be achieved? If possible.. please suggest a Windows implementation.. I'm sure it can be done with a Linux server.

On that note, how easy is it to set up a dedicated Linux server for MyWireless shared on a small home/office LAN?
 
There are some (crappy) tools to do that in Windows, its even damn hard in Linux.

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Has anyone tried www.smoothwall.org and MyWireless together?
 
I have ics running between 2 win2k machines, win2k pro as a "gateway" machine (with MyWireless Modem (USB) and ZoneAlarm firewall) and win2k advanced server as a workstation.

I want to have my local lan isolated from the outside world (the gateway machine is in another room with ups) and would like to have full port functionality from all workstations on my local lan (ie be able to collect and send mail, access to sites with Linux Cpanel, netscape newsgroups etc)

Have set the MTU size to 548 and ics works 100% on Internet Explorer (http port 80) ***but*** not on Netscape 4.79 mail or newsgroups, or Outlook 2002 mail or it seems on any port other that 80.

Does anyone know if there is port blocking or have any suggestions as to how to solve the problem - first prize being to make it work through ics like it does when I use my analogue dialup modem (which is also on the gateway machine).

Does anyone have more information on the "R120 Mercury switch" as mention by "Super" on the 4th of March? as an option or other working solutions that can be reliably replicated?
 
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