disabling internet connection sharing

[hugh]

Anybody have any ideas on this one?

Just took the plunge to high speed DSL (recently become
available in my area) and with the modem hooked directly
into my laptop, the connection is great, ie. +100mbps.
No problems.

With the intention of creating a home network consisting
of the laptop and a desktop and eventually a
multifunction machine, I have a Dlink DI-604 router. I
did the initial install as per all the Dlink stuff, and
everything was fine. Speed seemed to be great, although
not sure exactly how fast.

Now comes the problem. How to configure the firewall in
the router. The manual seems vague at this. So I went
exploring in Win XP pro and came accross the 'enable
internet firewall' check box. At the bottom of the
window it says to utilize the 'network setup wizard' if
you are not sure of firewall settings. So I did. I
realize this firewall has nothing to do with the router
firewall and that I should probably be utilizing the
router firewall, but after running the network setup
wizard, I am unable to do anything over the net.
The 'internet gateway' icon in 'network connections' says
my speed is 10mbps, and I am unable to disable this
thing.

A search of Win XP help index on the matter reveals how
to do it in all the operating systems except XP. A
search of the knowledge base articles comes up with every
subject on internet connection sharing, except how to
disable it in XP.

I believe this is my problem, as all seemed fine prior to
running the network setup wizard.

Any thoughts from anybody?

Hugh.

 

[adrian916]

If you are going through a router, you should disable
XP's built in firewall, this is only intended for a
direct connection to the internet. Also, when using the
network set up wizard, did you choose to connect through
a "residential gateway"? - this is microsofts term for a
router!. Most routers by default have basic firewall
functionality enabled, and you can then customise this by
opening or blocking specific ports. If you have ICS
enabled on one of your machines, this is turned off by
removing the tick in the connections properties (advanced
tab of the dial up connection)

If you have any other 3rd party firewalls runnning e.g
zone alarm, disable these whilst troubleshooting - they
could be blocking certain connections.

At a command prompt (start/run/"CMD")
type "ipconfig /all" (without quotes) and check that your
default gateway is the private address of the router and
that you are picking up DNS addresses. Post a copy of
these deatails back here if you need any further help.

HTH