Re: 'Share a DSL Internet Connection using a gateway'
Thursday, September 13, 2001 at 1:12 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RBraun
(7 messages posted)
I have a question about Share
an Internet Connection:
Help? Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is not an option for me since I am working
under W95. I am helping a friend out who has been using a DSL modem (really router/hub)
that WAS directly connected to a local (internal worgroup network) Hub. DSL connection
used to work properly through the existing 10+ port network hub with 6 or so workstations.
Under TCP/IP properties, we simply told each workstation the proper DNS and IP settings
for the ISP and everyone was succesful in using one DSL account. Recently, a shared
program was upgraded that caused the DSL connection to stop working. Actually, both
the DSL/Internet connections and the shared application both stopped working from
the workstations. After contacting technical support for the application they explained
that the DSL router was the conflict and that it was causing the application traffic
to be directed to the router instead of the respective workstation. Apparently due
to the exisitng IP settings for the DSN and/or the gateway addresses. Specificly,
mapping network drives doesn't seem to be an option and the vendor states they don't
suport DSL or any other ethernet high speed internet connections. It's either one
or the other. Of course they say ..Uh sorry, we don't support DSL (or any other internet
conections). After pushing them for a better alternative, they said some of the
customers had setup up a seperate workstation as a gateway. I assume an "Internet
Gateway". My dilema is that no one seems to know exactly how to set one up. My
constraints seem to be that the gateway computer must have the DSL connection directly
connected to it hence, 2 Ethernet cards are present. One for the workgroup connection
and one for a dedicated DSL conection. On the remaining workstations I can not get
away enabling DNS (or so it appears) or the applicaiton will not see the respective
application loaded workstation because it heads to the gateway/router instead (under
it previous configuration plugged in the hub with the respective IP settings to the
ISP). I am trying to set up the gateway with internet access, the workstations with
only static (fake) IP's plus the gateway setting pointing to the "gateway workstation"
described above (NIC card #2). Yet it also does not seem to work. I suspect I don't
have the right combination yet. So far only the application will work (when no DNS
or Gateway settings exist) or the DSL Internet connection will work (via the old
configuration out of the 10+ port hub but not yet from the newly established gateway.
ISP DNS and gateway settings present of course.) but not both. Begining to look
at some free downloads like IPRouter but I really don't know if this will fix my
problem either and allow use of the gateway without entries in the IP Properties.
Theres got to be an easier way to set this gateway up. Can anyone help to clear
some of this up?
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