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Question about 'Getting Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE'
Friday, April 12, 2002 at 3:19 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adrian Klingel
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Getting
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to work with PPPoE:
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.
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