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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection'
Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 9:05 am
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Posted by Al (5 messages posted)


I have had something quite similar. all i tried was to release and renew from the winipcfg command, this seemed to get me back working when I did this on the client pcs. I am using a 3 pc setup with phoneline adapters for internet sharing and am using MS ICS. Al


On Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 3:36 pm, Phil wrote:
>I have a question about Share
>an Internet Connection
:


>
>I have been having problems recently with ICS "breaking". We have a simple network
>at home which works very well. However, the client machine occasionally "loses" it's
>connection to the via the host. We have recently reformatted both machines with a
>clean install of Win98SE to try to solve this problem, which on this occasion solved
>nothing.
>
>I recently fixed this last impasse by setting the IP's on both machines manually
>(192.168.0.n) and pointing DNS on my machine (the client) to the host machine as
>well as the DNS IP of my ISP. I also set the gateway to point to the host machine.
>
>This all appears to be a convultuted way of getting ICS running as I don't recall
>it being this hard to get on with when we first started using Win98SE. I'd like to
>be able to find a resource (possibly URL) that will show me how ICS works which will
>help me best troubleshoot it when it does "break".
>
>TIA for any tips.
>
>Phil


Written in response to:
Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Phil: Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 3:36 pm)

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-Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Phil: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 3:36 pm)
-re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Bobstur: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 4:28 pm)
*re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Phil: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 9:20 pm)
*re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Andrew: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 9:45 am)
-re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Andrew: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 7:23 pm)
*re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Phil: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 9:23 pm)
*re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Al: Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 9:05 am)
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