XP Pro Internet Gateway

[RedPenguin]

I have a computer with two NIC cards running with XP Pro. I wanted to
have the Internet Modem plugged into the one NIC, then a switch gets
plugged into the other NIC and all the computers on the switch get
access through the Internet NIC.

What is the correct way to do this? I tried bridging first which I
thought was right then ICS, but neither want to properly work.

 

[Gordon]

I have a computer with two NIC cards running with XP Pro. I wanted to
have the Internet Modem plugged into the one NIC, then a switch gets
plugged into the other NIC and all the computers on the switch get
access through the Internet NIC.

What is the correct way to do this? I tried bridging first which I
thought was right then ICS, but neither want to properly work.

You would be MUCH MUCH better off buying a router......

 

[RedPenguin]

I wanted to have the modem through the PC then the PC to the router
which is acting as a switch because the Linksys BEFSR41 really doesn't
like P2P and loves to die so I figured to use a PC instead.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Plug the switch into the modem and the computers all into the switch. Does
that work?

However this means you should probably run a firewall on every machine,
whereas if you follow the advice already given and buy a cheap router you
get the advantage of it's built in firewall which protects every machine.

Trying to use ICS is likely to cause you more work, however there are some
things which maybe you are not aware of that could be causing your problem.

The NIC connected to the modem will have an IP given to it by the modem,
unless you fixed one and you shouldn't do that, it should get IP and DNS
automatically from DHCP.

The other card will be given 192.168.0.1 by ICS, that is the only one
possible.

This means the other PCS on the switch will be getting addresses in the
range 192.168.0.xxx or at least they should be, so leave them on automatic
too.

If this does not work then maybe the switch just can't configure itself or
whatever. Does plugging just one of the other computers into the second NIC
work? If not then ICS is messed up or else you have a setting wrong on one
of the machines. There are so many things that can cause problems the router
is by far the best idea.

Charlie

 

[RedPenguin]

yeah I like having a router, but for P2P, all routers I ever have seem
to die from P2P, they don't like a lot of connections at once, it seems
like, and while running P2P other stuff timeout like IRC chats
espeically and often Trillian for IM also.