Re: ICS and DHCP server configuration

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:24:22 -0700

In article <4032e05d$1@news.012.net.il>, "Ronen Gil"
<ronen.g@012.net.il> wrote:
>Thanks but not much use...
>I am very careful about things like that. in fact,
>I think I'm even more careful then Microsoft here
>(I don't think a DHCP deamon that gives a client
>a different i.P. number each connection
>(even if that client is the only one connected,
>is a good example for carefulness).
>More to the point - I'm using a RCA DSL Modem connected to one of 2 NICs in
>my Windows XP box.
>As far as I know the only way with this configuration to "share" the
>connection is Microsoft ICS and DHCP.
>It's just that I can't find a way to configure it
>to my "special" needs (e.g. giving a static ETHERNET
>address within my network a static i.p. number within my subnet musk,
>and still manage them all from the box connected to the Internet).
>
>TIA
>Ronen

I'm sorry, but it isn't possible to change the DHCP settings in ICS.
That's how Microsoft designed it, rightly or wrongly.

If ICS doesn't meet your needs, you'll have to use something else to
share the DSL connection: a broadband router or another Internet
sharing program. 

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