>
>It is with great sadness that I report that it is apparently impossible to share
>a dial-up DSL PPPoE connection from a Windows 2000 machine to XP Professional and
>NT 4.0 Professional machines.
>
>Though I have seen the best instructions so far on this website, there are several
>pieces of data which are not addressed:
>
>Which connection is shared? I have Sprint/Earthlink DSL, which is set up as a Dial-up
>connection using software called WinPoET. This machine has two NICs. In my Networking
>and Dial-up Connections dialog, there are three (3) connections:
>
>1) Intranet NIC
>2) Internet NIC
>3) Dial-up
>
>The Dial-up connection allows itself to be shared, and there is a dialog that lets
>you specify which connection is shared. But here is where the confusion is from,
>and I think it is from a lack of explanation, most specifically from Microsoft, about
>exactly what the hell it is that is supposed to be shared:
>
>Am I sharing my Dial-up connection?
>If so, which NIC do I choose?
>
>Am I just sharing the Internet NIC?
>If so, how in the hell is a client supposed to be able to dial the connection on
>demand? That is an option that is only available when sharing the Dial-up connection,
>something that is not addressed on this website.
>
>What the hell is being shared?
>
>It should be simple, but it is not. As you can probably tell, this is very frustrating.
>
>ANYBODY THAT CAN HELP PLEASE DO SO, I AM BEGGING HERE.

Written in response to: Question about 'Getting Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE' (Adrian Klingel: Friday, April 12, 2002 at 3:19 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Getting Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE' (Kay Thompson: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 6:49 am)

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