ICS problem

[Marc Seidler]

I have a client with 2 separate LAN's both running ICS from a Dial up.
1 has 4 users and the other has 7
They both worked fine 1 day and not at all the next and they suspected
possible storm damage.
When I went out all systems were so messed up with spyware and possible
virus issues that I had them restore all systems clean.
I have perfect LAN access to shared resources but the internet access is
unstable. I tried using the ICS wizard and also manually setting up the
clients. IP ICS Server 192.168.0.1, 255.255.255.0, Clients 192.168.0 2/3/4,
etc, 255.255.255.0, GW: 192.168.0.1, DNS 192.168.90.1. All have the same
workgroup and different names. Like I said I have perfect Lan shared
resource printer access but the internet takes almost 5 minutes to be
available or the pages partially download and then hang. I have replaced
the 2 Switches and 2 Nics (which took it from no access to limited access).
My Fluke Meter showed poor frames on 1 NIC. I am confused. Why would I
have LAN access but no internet? I can ping the server 192.168.0.1 fine. I
am hesitant to replace all NICs as why would I have LAN access if they were
the problem.
Please show me some stupid thing I am missing? I may try a proxy server
next to verify that ICS is not the issue.

 

[Jim]

I would first check that the gateway in the ICS computer
is set correctly. Then I would check the DNS server and
make sure it is working properly. Just curious why they
would have a DNS server in there network, is it also a
DC? I would think that a small company that relied on a
dial up connection would be fine using the ISP's DNS
instead of setting up their own???

Jim

 

[Marc Seidler]

In ICS they recommend that you set up the NIC on the Server as 192.168.0.1
and set the GW and DNS server on the clients as the same. I have tried the
auto config using a ICS floppy created by the ICS server system and it also
hd the same issues. I am fishing at this point.

 

[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
In ICS they recommend that you set up the NIC on the Server as 192.168.0.1
and set the GW and DNS server on the clients as the same. I have tried the
auto config using a ICS floppy created by the ICS server system and it also
hd the same issues. I am fishing at this point.



.

So The machine is set up as a DNS server? If so then
your problem is you should try to use forwarders to speed
up the lookup requests. If it isn't actually configured
as a DNS server then you need to load DNS on it. What OS
is on the machine that you want to use ICS? It must be
server family to use it as a dns server.

Jim