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re: Question about 'Getting Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE'
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 6:49 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kay Thompson
(1 messages posted)
Gayle: Where have you been? Are you still alive? We've lost touch....Kay
On Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 5:57 am, Gayle Burrage wrote:
>Get rid of Win Poet.
>
>Go to http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/ and dowload RASPPPOE, Version 0.96.
>This software was written for W2K, whereas WinPoet was written for W9X & NT.
>The download includes detailed setup instrctions, including ICS.
>RASPPPOE is very stable & reliable.
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>
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>On Friday, April 12, 2002 at 3:19 pm, Adrian Klingel wrote:
>>I have a question about Getting
>>Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE:
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>>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.
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>>Though I have seen the best instructions so far on this website, there are several
>>pieces of data which are not addressed:
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>>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:
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>>1) Intranet NIC
>>2) Internet NIC
>>3) Dial-up
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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