adsl connection crashes after ics set up

[drsabrown]

Hi,
I have:
1 Desktop machine running Windows XP SP1, which has internal ADSL
modem, internal Ethernet, USB Bluetooth and USB 80211g Wireless
adaptor. ZoneAlarm firewall.
1 Laptop with internal wireless adaptor.

I'd like to share the ADSL interet connection from the desktop to the
laptop.

I can setup an adhoc network between the two machines that appears
fine. I ran the network wizeard on the server specifying I wanted to
share the internet connection. It did the following: created a bridge
and put the ethernet, bluetooth and wireless adaptors into the bridge,
configured the adsl connection as shared.

Now, when I connect the laptop via the adhoc wireless network, it
obtains an IP address and gateway, dns settings etc as expected. The
internet connection is now available from the laptop, for about 10
minutes. Then I lose internet connectivity on the host (DNS fails
etc.) and the ADSL connection process appears to becomes unresponsive -
I can disconnect the ADSL connection, I can't kill the process. Plus,
whilst its running I appear unable to switch users. Previously the
internet connection has been fine for many months and I've not
experienced this issue before (before setting up the adhoc wireless lan
and doing ICS).

Any help as to why the ADSL connection (or is it the bridge) is
effectively crashing? Is there something I need to update/reinstall?
Is it worth deleting the bridge and rerunning the wizard? Is this a
known issue?

Many thanks,

Simon

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hi,
I have:
1 Desktop machine running Windows XP SP1, which has internal ADSL
modem, internal Ethernet, USB Bluetooth and USB 80211g Wireless
adaptor. ZoneAlarm firewall.
1 Laptop with internal wireless adaptor.

I'd like to share the ADSL interet connection from the desktop to the
laptop.

I can setup an adhoc network between the two machines that appears
fine. I ran the network wizeard on the server specifying I wanted to
share the internet connection. It did the following: created a bridge
and put the ethernet, bluetooth and wireless adaptors into the bridge,
configured the adsl connection as shared.

Now, when I connect the laptop via the adhoc wireless network, it
obtains an IP address and gateway, dns settings etc as expected. The
internet connection is now available from the laptop, for about 10
minutes. Then I lose internet connectivity on the host (DNS fails
etc.) and the ADSL connection process appears to becomes unresponsive -
I can disconnect the ADSL connection, I can't kill the process. Plus,
whilst its running I appear unable to switch users. Previously the
internet connection has been fine for many months and I've not
experienced this issue before (before setting up the adhoc wireless lan
and doing ICS).

Any help as to why the ADSL connection (or is it the bridge) is
effectively crashing? Is there something I need to update/reinstall?
Is it worth deleting the bridge and rerunning the wizard? Is this a
known issue?

Many thanks,

Simon

Disable ICS, delete the network bridge, and enable ICS again. Don't
let the Wizard create a network bridge this time. Tell it to use only
the wireless adapter for the home network.

Some versions of ZoneAlarm are incompatible with ICS on the host
computer. If problems continue, I'd enable SP1's Internet Connection
Firewall on the ADSL connection and un-install ZoneAlarm.

Why are you still using SP1? SP2 has been available for over a year,
and it has lots of security fixes, better wireless networking, etc.
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[Tony]

Hi,
I have:
1 Desktop machine running Windows XP SP1, which has internal ADSL
modem, internal Ethernet, USB Bluetooth and USB 80211g Wireless
adaptor. ZoneAlarm firewall.
1 Laptop with internal wireless adaptor.

I'd like to share the ADSL interet connection from the desktop to the
laptop.

I can setup an adhoc network between the two machines that appears
fine. I ran the network wizeard on the server specifying I wanted to
share the internet connection. It did the following: created a bridge
and put the ethernet, bluetooth and wireless adaptors into the bridge,
configured the adsl connection as shared.

Now, when I connect the laptop via the adhoc wireless network, it
obtains an IP address and gateway, dns settings etc as expected. The
internet connection is now available from the laptop, for about 10
minutes. Then I lose internet connectivity on the host (DNS fails
etc.) and the ADSL connection process appears to becomes unresponsive -
I can disconnect the ADSL connection, I can't kill the process. Plus,
whilst its running I appear unable to switch users. Previously the
internet connection has been fine for many months and I've not
experienced this issue before (before setting up the adhoc wireless lan
and doing ICS).

Any help as to why the ADSL connection (or is it the bridge) is
effectively crashing? Is there something I need to update/reinstall?
Is it worth deleting the bridge and rerunning the wizard? Is this a
known issue?

Many thanks,

Simon

Using ICS with wireless adhoc can be a pain to get working. I would suggest
using a proxy server such as CCProxy (free from
http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/ ) and not using ICS. Alternatively you
could try updating to SP2 which gives better wireless support but personally
I would use a proxy server.

 

[drsabrown]

Thanks for the responses. I've avoided upgraded to SP2 because I've
heard stories of many other things breaking when you do this, so for a
simple life I'm staying with a minimally patched SP1 which has worked
ok up to now.

From the Steve's response I'm assuming that the network bridge may be

the issue - though when I tried to enable ICS (by hand, without the
wizard and without the bridge) the client computer would get an IP
address, but it wouldn't get a gateway or DNS server - ie it wasn't
sharing the connection. I'll try recreating through the wizard again
and see what happens.

Thanks and regards,

Simon