Re: NAT gateway setup problem

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From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:37:13 -0000

sounds like you already have plenty of pain, so carry on if you must. but
if you don't like how ics handles dhcp and dns you may want to look at one
of the third party connection sharing solutions to see if they provide you
the control you want.

"flekso" <flekso@vip.hr> wrote in message
news:ce596c73.0409230829.613c512c@posting.google.com...
> Yup, but i would like to install a dhcp & dns services on this gateway
> so ICS is likely to cause more pain than worth...
>
> "Dave" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:<##7CjoPoEHA.1608@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>...
> > isn't that just a hard way to setup 'internet connection sharing'. ics
does
> > nat for the internal network as well as other services needed to share
an
> > internet connection. try reading up in the help on 'ics' or 'internet
> > connection sharing' and see if the gui that sets it up doesn't do a
better
> > job than a couple netsh commands.
> >
> > "flekso" <taurus@email.htnet.hr> wrote in message
> > news:eBY5bLPoEHA.3864@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > I've found this netsh script that allows me to install NAT on a WinXP
> > > machine (undocummented feature):
> > >
> > > netsh routing ip nat install
> > > netsh routing ip nat add interface "external" full
> > > netsh routing ip nat add interface "internal" private
> > >
> > > ...but now i have another problem, mainly because my internet
> > > connection is based on dial-up PPPoE aDSL, so i have two icons in
> > > network connections, one that represents a WAN miniport(this one i
> > > click to connect), and the other that represents NIC that connects to
> > > my aDSL modem.
> > > The problem is my WAN miniport(PPPoE) gets assigned with the external
> > > IP, and the NIC gets an automatic private address(whatever that means)
> > > in the 169.254 range, but netsh won't accept the PPPoE as an
> > interface(says
> > > it not a real interface),
> > > so i must use the one that's detected as local(at least by
netlimiter)...
> > >
> > > Any clues ? Maybe i can fool the netsh into thinking that PPPoE is a
real
> > > NIC ? Why are there two icons anyway ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >

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