ICS - Addressing

[Newscene]

I am trying to set up a Windows 2000 Professional workstation to serve as a
fallback demand dial router for my WLAN at home. I have an old Thinkpad 600
to carry the taks and a Verizon CDMA-EVDO wireless card that would serve as
the WAN interface.

My configuration is:
Thinkpad 600 233 running Win2000 Prof
Belkin 802.11B WLAN card
Infrastructure WLAN using a D-Link DI-784 Router as the primary path
Verizon EVDO CDMA card for demand dial WAN

If you configure ICS on this machine it forces the WLAN interface to
192.168.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0. My WLAN is using 192.,168.15.0 with a
netmask of 255.255.0.0 so the 192.168.0.1 address would be visible in my
WLAN except that it forces the local machine netmask to 255.255.255.0 which
prevents the WLAN from seeing it.

Is there any way to:
1.Cconfigure ICS to use a block other than 192.168.0.0 --- I'd like to force
it into the 192.168.15.0 block with the rest of my WLAN or;
2. Configure ICS NOT to force a Class C netmask (255.255.255.0) and allow me
to set a mask of 255.255.0.0? This would place it within the address space
of the WLAN regardless of the local IP

Thanks
John
clippermiami *AT* gmail *DOT* com

 

[Phillip Windell]

No. You have to re-address the LAN to keep ICS happy.

 

[Newscene]

I can't say that I am surprised

No. You have to re-address the LAN to keep ICS happy.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

I am trying to set up a Windows 2000 Professional workstation to serve as a
fallback demand dial router for my WLAN at home. I have an old Thinkpad 600
to carry the taks and a Verizon CDMA-EVDO wireless card that would serve as
the WAN interface.

My configuration is:
Thinkpad 600 233 running Win2000 Prof
Belkin 802.11B WLAN card
Infrastructure WLAN using a D-Link DI-784 Router as the primary path
Verizon EVDO CDMA card for demand dial WAN

If you configure ICS on this machine it forces the WLAN interface to
192.168.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0. My WLAN is using 192.,168.15.0 with a
netmask of 255.255.0.0 so the 192.168.0.1 address would be visible in my
WLAN except that it forces the local machine netmask to 255.255.255.0 which
prevents the WLAN from seeing it.

Is there any way to:
1.Cconfigure ICS to use a block other than 192.168.0.0 --- I'd like to force
it into the 192.168.15.0 block with the rest of my WLAN or;
2. Configure ICS NOT to force a Class C netmask (255.255.255.0) and allow me
to set a mask of 255.255.0.0? This would place it within the address
space
of the WLAN regardless of the local IP

Thanks
John
clippermiami *AT* gmail *DOT* com

 

[Phillip Windell]

I can't say that I am surprised

I know

Well, it is a "home user" feature, after all. Anything more advanced than
that is supposed to use RRAS/NAT which requires the Server version of the
OS. The ICS on Win98SE and Win98ME you could adjust by a registry hack to
give it the address block you wanted to use. But I believe the design of ICS
was altered somewhat in Win2k (pro and server), XP, and Server2003 and it
was no longer adjustable. Don't quote me on it, but I think that was the
way the story went.

 

[Newscene]

Thanks. Back to the drawing board.

I know

Well, it is a "home user" feature, after all. Anything more advanced than
that is supposed to use RRAS/NAT which requires the Server version of the
OS. The ICS on Win98SE and Win98ME you could adjust by a registry hack to
give it the address block you wanted to use. But I believe the design of
ICS
was altered somewhat in Win2k (pro and server), XP, and Server2003 and it
was no longer adjustable. Don't quote me on it, but I think that was the
way the story went.

 

[Phillip Windell]

Buy a second "D-Link DI-784 Router" as a backup device.

 

[John Steele]

Actually I'm not trying to backup the router --- I have another router that
I can use. I was trying to backup the DSL link using the Verizon EVDO

Buy a second "D-Link DI-784 Router" as a backup device.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Thanks. Back to the drawing board.