Help with ICS or bridging either way..

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Huser

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Greetings,

OK Heres the deal at the south end of the house 1st floor I have dsl servie through a ZyXel modem (bridged mode) connected to a Belkin Wireless router which has the main 2 PC's connected directly bj rj cables..

Norht end upstairs is PC3& pc4 mine (1) connected by wireless usb.. (1) not connected at the moment, what I'd like to do untill I can buy a 2nd usb wireless adapter is connect pc4 to the net through pc3 by crossover cable utilizing the onboard nics in both pc's and ICS but I cant quite find a guide that covers this sort of senario

But if it can be done how do I do it in this senario please..

The ZyXel uses 192.168.1.1 (bridged mode)
The Belkin uses 192.168.2.1 (dhcp)


DSL ZyXel Modem (bridged)
...........................|...................
.................Belkin Wireless router........
.....................|.......S......|............
....................PC1.....S.....PC2...........
..................(wired)...S....(wired)........
..............................S...................
..............................S...................
.....................PC3 (wireless USB)........
...........................|...................
...........................|...................
.....................PC4 Patch cable...........

Please help guide me through connecting my poor orphaned 4th pc.. otherwise it's wait till I can buy it it's own wireless adapter..

Thanks in advance for your time,

Huser
 
IF PC3 is running XP, create a bridge from the hard wired NIC and wireless NIC. The crossover cable connection will then directly connect PC4 to the network.

Go Start>"Help and Support" search on "bridge".

Click the "create a network bridge" in the task list for step by step instructions.
 
you cant have ICS running with a router, I think you want to bridge the two nics in the host machine. Look up "bridge" in XP's help and support on the start menu(yeah no kiddin, right in the help). "Bridge connections" in the help (im NOT kidding, right in the help. Don't even have to resort to google) will tell you how to do it.

HA! rats.... nessus beat me by a minute or two.
 
Ok I have bridged the Local Area Connection previously unused (On-Board Ethernet port) and the Wireless Connection (USB Wireless Adapter and source for I-net)

I have connected the 2 pc's by a crossover cable via both on-board ethernet ports

of the 2 (pc3 & pc4) pc3 still connects fine proof in this post pc4 does not autodetect and I get an IP conflict error message on pc3..

ipconfig /all on pc3 gives:

IP: 192.168.2.3
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1
DHCP: 192.168.2.1
DNS: 63.162.197.69
DNS: 199.2.252.10
DNS: 50.0.24.68


If I set pc 4 manually to:
IP: 192.168.2.3
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
DHCP: 192.168.2.1
DNS: 63.162.197.69
DNS: 199.2.252.10

Still says connected but cannot access the internet?

Huser
 
OK so maybe not set pc 4 manually to:

Ok set pc4 to:

IP: 192.168.2.80
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1
DNS: 63.162.197.69
DNS: 199.2.252.10

And after a short time delay it see,ms to have worked. And I am able to browse now.. but still got a ip conflict message at first if it doesnt come back then looks like I am golden! thanks! =-D
 
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