XP ICS and DSL (still)

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Mike

Hi, guys,
Thanks again for all the help, but I still can't get this
darn thing working. Once again, I've got an XP box with
two NICs, one Internet, one local area. One will work
beautifully when the other is disabled, but they refuse
to work together. I've checked the gateway and the mask.
The Internet connection is set to get an ip
automatically. The LAN NIC was set by Windows to:
IP - 192.168.0.1
Mask- 255.255.255.0
Gateway- 192.168.1.1
PrefDNS- 192.168.1.1

My newest clue is this: when I enable the LAN NIC while
the Internet NIC is enabled, this comes up in the System
Events:

The DHCP allocator has detected a DHCP server with IP
address 192.168.1.1 on the same network as the interface
with IP address 192.168.0.1. The allocator has disabled
itself on the interface in order to avoid confusing DHCP
clients.


I'm thinking this has at least a little to do with my
problem, as I can still ping the Internet NIC's gateway
when both cards are enabled, but ping can't resolve any
IPs in this situation.

Again, I truly appreciate the help, guys. Thanks.
 
Where are the cables connected to?
What I mean is, where does the cable to the Internet NIC
go, and where does the cable to the Internet NIC go?

Do they ever end up at the same place? For example, if
you have a router device connected somewhere, is it
connected to both cables?
 
Oh, I understand now.

The Linksys router contains its own DHCP server. When
you have ICS set up, ICS also has its own DHCP server,
which it's trying to run on the same network as your
Linksys router. ICS is detecting the Linksys, and
therefore is shutting itself off.

You have a couple options:

1) Typically, the easiest thing to do when you already
have a router is to plug the Internet connection into the
router's WAN port, plug everything on the LAN into the
router, and just let the router take care of handling the
Internet sharing. Is there a reason you don't want to do
this?

2) If so, you can check your Linksys manual and see if
there's an option you can uncheck/turn off/change to
disable the Linksys' built-in DHCP server. Once you do
that, ICS will keep its own DHCP server up, and you
should be fine from there as well.
 
----- Mike wrote: ----

Hi, guys
Thanks again for all the help, but I still can't get this
darn thing working. Once again, I've got an XP box with
two NICs, one Internet, one local area. One will work
beautifully when the other is disabled, but they refuse
to work together. I've checked the gateway and the mask
The Internet connection is set to get an ip
automatically. The LAN NIC was set by Windows to
IP - 192.168.0.
Mask- 255.255.255.
Gateway- 192.168.1.
PrefDNS- 192.168.1.

My newest clue is this: when I enable the LAN NIC while
the Internet NIC is enabled, this comes up in the System
Events

The DHCP allocator has detected a DHCP server with IP
address 192.168.1.1 on the same network as the interface
with IP address 192.168.0.1. The allocator has disabled
itself on the interface in order to avoid confusing DHCP
clients


I'm thinking this has at least a little to do with my
problem, as I can still ping the Internet NIC's gateway
when both cards are enabled, but ping can't resolve any
IPs in this situation

Again, I truly appreciate the help, guys. Thanks
 
Hi, guys,
Thanks again for all the help, but I still can't get this
darn thing working. Once again, I've got an XP box with
two NICs, one Internet, one local area. One will work
beautifully when the other is disabled, but they refuse
to work together. I've checked the gateway and the mask.
The Internet connection is set to get an ip
automatically. The LAN NIC was set by Windows to:
IP - 192.168.0.1
Mask- 255.255.255.0
Gateway- 192.168.1.1
PrefDNS- 192.168.1.1

My newest clue is this: when I enable the LAN NIC while
the Internet NIC is enabled, this comes up in the System
Events:

The DHCP allocator has detected a DHCP server with IP
address 192.168.1.1 on the same network as the interface
with IP address 192.168.0.1. The allocator has disabled
itself on the interface in order to avoid confusing DHCP
clients.


I'm thinking this has at least a little to do with my
problem, as I can still ping the Internet NIC's gateway
when both cards are enabled, but ping can't resolve any
IPs in this situation.

Again, I truly appreciate the help, guys. Thanks.
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The settings that you show for the LAN NIC can't be right. The NIC's
IP address is in the 192.168.0.x subnet, and the default gateway is in
the 192.168.1.x subnet.

Since the default gateway is the path to other subnets, it must be in
the same subnet as the NIC.
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