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Steve Preskitt
Hi all,
Let me preface this by saying that while I have a fair bit of
experience with Windows in general, I'm pretty new to XP Embedded. By
and large things are very similar between XP and Embedded, but
occasionally I find something new and exciting to trip over.
The question at hand regards Internet Connection Sharing under XPE. I
have a device whose development I've inherited that acts as a NATing
router to allow multiple Ethernet devices to connect over a
proprietary wireless network. I'm using ICS to connect the devices on
the Ethernet side to the wireless interface, and thus far it's been
working very well. The wired devices are getting 192.168 addresses
via DHCP as I'd expect, and the NAT functionality works well for
contacting the wired devices from the wireless side.
My problem stems from the fact that I need to be able to have some
control over the DHCP addresses that are handed out. Normally, when
trying to do something like this, you'd go to the registry and muck
about under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ICSharing to
accomplish what you need. On the XPE system that I'm working with,
this key does not exist. I cannot find the names of any of my NAT
entries anywhere within the registry, nor in the file system itself.
Obviously this information has to exist somewhere, since the unit
comes up from a cold start properly configured and XPE has to pull the
info in order to populate the appropriate dialogs when editing.
Any ideas where XPE might be hiding this info? TIA.
Steve
Let me preface this by saying that while I have a fair bit of
experience with Windows in general, I'm pretty new to XP Embedded. By
and large things are very similar between XP and Embedded, but
occasionally I find something new and exciting to trip over.
The question at hand regards Internet Connection Sharing under XPE. I
have a device whose development I've inherited that acts as a NATing
router to allow multiple Ethernet devices to connect over a
proprietary wireless network. I'm using ICS to connect the devices on
the Ethernet side to the wireless interface, and thus far it's been
working very well. The wired devices are getting 192.168 addresses
via DHCP as I'd expect, and the NAT functionality works well for
contacting the wired devices from the wireless side.
My problem stems from the fact that I need to be able to have some
control over the DHCP addresses that are handed out. Normally, when
trying to do something like this, you'd go to the registry and muck
about under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ICSharing to
accomplish what you need. On the XPE system that I'm working with,
this key does not exist. I cannot find the names of any of my NAT
entries anywhere within the registry, nor in the file system itself.
Obviously this information has to exist somewhere, since the unit
comes up from a cold start properly configured and XPE has to pull the
info in order to populate the appropriate dialogs when editing.
Any ideas where XPE might be hiding this info? TIA.
Steve