Can you bridge network connections?

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Here is part of my network setup. I have a computer running Windows XP
connected to a DI-604 router through an onboard NIC. I have this
computer connected to another computer with a cross-over cable and a PCI
NIC. When I first tried to get the second computer online, I used XP's
Internet Connection Sharing. This failed giving me an error that the IP
Windows Needed to act as a router was taken (by my router). I got this
setup to work however when I "bridged" the two connections. My
questions is: will I be able to do this in Windows 2000?
 
Royle said:
Here is part of my network setup. I have a computer running Windows XP
connected to a DI-604 router through an onboard NIC. I have this
computer connected to another computer with a cross-over cable and a PCI
NIC. When I first tried to get the second computer online, I used XP's
Internet Connection Sharing. This failed giving me an error that the IP
Windows Needed to act as a router was taken (by my router). I got this
setup to work however when I "bridged" the two connections. My
questions is: will I be able to do this in Windows 2000?
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Only XP and Win2003 Server "bridge" NICs.

XP needs the feature to support multiple "internal networks" for
ICS when technically ICS only supports one.

This happens most frequently when the ICS-XP-router has both
a Wireless and 100Mbps Ethernet but you wish to share the
Internet connection for both without buying a server.
 
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