Re: Windows 2000 Host and Windows ME Client ICS

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From: James (grolschuk_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: 16 Sep 2004 07:16:20 -0700

Change the DNS settings for the client to be the DNS server for your
ISP, instead of 192.168.0.1 If your gateway isn't a DNS server, you
won't be able to resolve any external names.

Also see if you can connect to http:\\216.109.117.106\ (www.yahoo.com)
as an ip address instead of a name.

cffung@myrealbox.com (CFF) wrote in message news:<2560187f.0409152248.d5477a4@posting.google.com>...
> Thank you for your useful comments on this problem. From what you
> mentioned, I can see it suggests, at least, two problems that
> contribute to the failure connection.
>
> 1) The adapter that should be shared is the D-Link card; and
> 2) It is a PPPoE type of connection.
>
> For 1), I've changed accordingly and after that it shows at least some
> sign of connectivity (instead of not connecting at all before change).
> The way I can see the connectivity is when I ping the default gateway
> on the client (Windows ME) machine, it shows
>
>
> Pinging 220.255.55.58 with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Ping statistics for 220.255.55.58:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
>
>
> However, I can have no way to load ANY internet page at all. If I ping
> www.yahoo.com, for example, it shows
>
> Unknown host www.yahoo.com
>
> after about 10 seconds of waiting. That makes me suspect the problem
> is caused by PPPoE. Someting related to the max MTU setting. When I
> did a
>
> ping -f -l 1470 220.255.55.58, it shows
>
> Pinging 220.255.55.58 with 1470 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=1470 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=1470 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=1470 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 220.255.55.58: bytes=1470 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Ping statistics for 220.255.55.58:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
>
> and 1470 is the best number I can achieve so far. I also noticed that
> this number (1470) is not a fixed number but varied every time I
> restart my client machine. In the worst case, it dropped to somewhere
> below 1440. I've also tried to manually regedit
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans\0002
> by adding MaxMTU=1470.
>
> But it doesn't seem to solve the problem. I still cannot access any
> web page. Any idea whatelse can I try further in order to rectify the
> problem? Or, can somebody confirm to me, in this case, the whole
> problem came from PPPoE? Thank you.



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