ICS and DHCP server configuration

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Ronen Gil

Hi all!
I wonder where the DHCP configuration script disappeared in Windows XP
Professional...

I have ICS working just fine, only I can't find a way for the DHCP deamon to
assign only the IPs I want it to assign to certain ETHERNET addresses.
In other platforms there is something like dhcpd.conf or something similar,
but I can't find any reference to this configuration script in Windows XP.
Can anyone help please...?
TIA
Ronen
 
"Ronen Gil" said:
Hi all!
I wonder where the DHCP configuration script disappeared in Windows XP
Professional...

I have ICS working just fine, only I can't find a way for the DHCP deamon to
assign only the IPs I want it to assign to certain ETHERNET addresses.
In other platforms there is something like dhcpd.conf or something similar,
but I can't find any reference to this configuration script in Windows XP.
Can anyone help please...?
TIA
Ronen
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I'm sorry, but the DHCP server that runs in XP when you enable ICS is
quite rudimentary, and there's no way to configure it.
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Can i change default DHCP pool address? I mean, i didn't
want 192.168.0.*, but 192.168.100.*, for example...
Although both will work, i have such application locked in
another network number and i cannot change it, so i must
use that network and keep providing network access to other
lan machines.
 
That's exactly my point.
In any other DHCP deamon you would have a configuration script to allow you
to change
the scope of i.p. numbers per network or per ETHERNET address or even per
time.
Only, I can't find any utility / script / documentation to do that
on a Windows XP ICS based DHCP deamon.
 
You will need to be MOST careful.

Most Cable/ADSL Modems have a status page that can
be accessed by Internet Explorer, and usually configured by
your ISP. (Visiting Technicians use it.)

Many of them use an address in the 192.168.*.* range -
mine is 192.168.100.1 - because it is a non-routable
address.

This is precisely why Microsoft ICS uses it.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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Thanks but not much use...
I am very careful about things like that. in fact,
I think I'm even more careful then Microsoft here
(I don't think a DHCP deamon that gives a client
a different i.P. number each connection
(even if that client is the only one connected,
is a good example for carefulness).
More to the point - I'm using a RCA DSL Modem connected to one of 2 NICs in
my Windows XP box.
As far as I know the only way with this configuration to "share" the
connection is Microsoft ICS and DHCP.
It's just that I can't find a way to configure it
to my "special" needs (e.g. giving a static ETHERNET
address within my network a static i.p. number within my subnet musk,
and still manage them all from the box connected to the Internet).

TIA
Ronen
 
"Ronen Gil" said:
Thanks but not much use...
I am very careful about things like that. in fact,
I think I'm even more careful then Microsoft here
(I don't think a DHCP deamon that gives a client
a different i.P. number each connection
(even if that client is the only one connected,
is a good example for carefulness).
More to the point - I'm using a RCA DSL Modem connected to one of 2 NICs in
my Windows XP box.
As far as I know the only way with this configuration to "share" the
connection is Microsoft ICS and DHCP.
It's just that I can't find a way to configure it
to my "special" needs (e.g. giving a static ETHERNET
address within my network a static i.p. number within my subnet musk,
and still manage them all from the box connected to the Internet).

TIA
Ronen
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I'm sorry, but it isn't possible to change the DHCP settings in ICS.
That's how Microsoft designed it, rightly or wrongly.

If ICS doesn't meet your needs, you'll have to use something else to
share the DSL connection: a broadband router or another Internet
sharing program.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
 
I think I'm even more careful then Microsoft here
(I don't think a DHCP deamon that gives a client
a different i.P. number each connection
(even if that client is the only one connected,
is a good example for carefulness).
More to the point - I'm using a RCA DSL Modem connected to one of 2 NICs
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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You might be able to use ICS but you will have to manually configure the
TCP/IP addresses. Since you have 10 or less PC's then it's not much of a
problem. I even had my ADSL router as a DHCP server even though I was at
that time using dial-up. I uticked use this as DNS server and unticked use
tis as gateway. Then I entered the address of my XP PC.
 
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