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[King George John]

I have two (2) XP machines and one (1) W-98 machine. Each machine has a
modem but I only have one telephone line.

I would like to arrange things that with "reasonable" security when any of
the three machines logs onto my ISP, the other two can share the connection.

Before I got the second XP machine, just using the wizard I got it so that
the W-98 machine could use the XP machines connection but not the reverse.

I posted a variation of this question before and all I got was the
"suggestion" that I get a "server" and that I should not throw "software" at
a hardware problem. Well, I have all the hardware I want to use for the
time being. I am looking for the "soft" solution.

Thanks,

jlg

 

[Phil]

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[Steve N.]

I have two (2) XP machines and one (1) W-98 machine. Each machine has a
modem but I only have one telephone line.

I would like to arrange things that with "reasonable" security when any of
the three machines logs onto my ISP, the other two can share the connection.

Before I got the second XP machine, just using the wizard I got it so that
the W-98 machine could use the XP machines connection but not the reverse.

I posted a variation of this question before and all I got was the
"suggestion" that I get a "server" and that I should not throw "software" at
a hardware problem. Well, I have all the hardware I want to use for the
time being. I am looking for the "soft" solution.

Thanks,

jlg

There is no software solution. Only one of the PCs can be the ICS host.
There is no way to configure all three to act as ICS host. Changing
which one is the host often takes several re-configuration attempts to
get them all to agree because Windows caches routing information not
only based on IP addressing but on computer names as well, which makes
it even more difficult to re-configure. When I've done this I've had to
manually edit the registry to remove the old ICS Host computer name from
DefaultGateway keys. Also, if you're using a smart hub or switch then
its internal address tables have to be re-built.

Steve