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My computer is networked to a router where other computers share an
internet connection. I would like to have my computer share it's
connection with my bluetooth pda. However, in the Internet
Connection Sharing process, my computer must be assigned the same IP
address that the router must be assigned. Is there anyway my
computer can be setup as an access point for my pda without the IP
address mess. Thank you very much for your help in advance.
Not really, not that I'm aware of anyways - or at least not natively. What
you'd have to do, as far as I know, is disable the router's DHCP and assign
the IP address of 192.168.0.1 to the PC you want to use as the ICS server.
That PC would then handle DHCP and the rest of the PCs would IDEALY be kept
with the same configuration in that they'd still get the IP address
automatically. Often times this doesn't work so very well though. Someone
might have an alternative but if you wanted to use ICS that's pretty much
how you'd start to tackle it. Sometimes you need to add the workgroup
(usually mshome.net) to it and set the DNS to resolve to the 192.168.0.1
address which is a lot of work and not even then is it always effective.
As a side note, the last time I tried this I could not access the web
interface for my router to set it back to handle the DHCP and stop using the
static IP address for the host machine. It resulted in needing to find the
reset button and setting the entire thing up again. Hopefully someone will
have an easier way for you so I guess I'd avoid using ICS with your current
configuration if at all possible.
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