Internet Connection Sharing only kind of works

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Rob Whittenberger

I got ICS set-up and it works only some of the time. For
instance, I can work AOL IM all of the time, and it will
check one of my e-mail addresses (through Outlook Express)
from the client computer. On the other hand, IE almost
never works, and one of my e-mail addresses won't work,
either.
I have it set-up so that I have one LAN card connected to
the DSL, and one connected to my laptop (the client). I
have a third connection, called Verizon DSL, that is
configured as the ICS. I have to run a program to connect
to my DSL on the host computer, but I run it before I try
to connect from my laptop.
Basically, I'm frustrated.
Please help.
Thanks
-Rob
 
Rob. Get rid of ICS and get a nat router. I see Best Buy has a Dlink on sale for
$19.95 after rebate this week. I really hated dsl and the client pppoe connectoid
until I got my router. --- Steve
 
Just read all the questions which ask for the same help - this is a
Windows 2000 bug - get the router as suggested or you could try Netproxy
(solved all my problems). Otherwise, don't waste your time trying to get
ICS to work...it doesn't
Jmac
 
When ICS "only kind of works," the problem may be that Win2K ICS is a
Black Hole Router. Especially if the gateway machine works OK but the
client machines "only kind of work." Read about Black Hole Routers
here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314825

To see the Black Hole behavior, try these two commands from a DOS
window on the Gateway machine and the other machines:

ping www.ebay.com -f -l 1472
ping www.ebay.com -f -l 1432

Also try www.google.com and www.abcnews.go.com. The gateway machine
for 1472 will respond "packet needs to be fragmented but DF Set."
All other setting will respond "Request timed out." When browsing,
the gateway machine sees the message and reconnects with a smaller
MTU. Bu the gateway never relays this information to the ICS clients.

The workaround is to use Method 3 from the article and set the MTU
size of the client machines to 1460 (=1432+28).

I'm hoping that one of the pros here will pick up on this and get
Microsoft to fix ICS.
 
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