ICS for ethernet DSL connection - 2nd network card required?
From: Sono (mc_sono_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/06/04
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:17:14 -0700
Hi Paul,
In order to enable ICS, you need to have an additional
ethernet card installed in your PC.
If you want to use a hub, you'd need a router to share the
internet instead of the ICS. (some routers come with more
than one port 3-8 that you can use instead of a hub).
There's could be an another alternative.
If your DSL modem has USB connection you can use it to
connect to your PC or Laptop and connect the PC and laptop
directly to each other using the network cards. (I'm not
sure if it works but it worth a try).
By the way, if you connect your computers directly to each
other you'd need an RJ-45 crossover cable!
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I have a desktop PC that is connected directly to my DSL
>modem via ethernet (no hub, switch, or router in between
>the PC and the DSL modem). I'd like to use Windows XP's
>Internet Connection Sharing to share this internet
>connection with my laptop. I was hoping that rather than
>having the DSL modem connected directly to my desktop, if
>I connected it to an ethernet hub and also connected both
>the desktop and the laptop to this same hub, I would able
>to enable ICS on the desktop and it would work. I
>haven't gotten to far yet, but I'm wondering if I will
>need to add an addtional ethernet card to my desktop in
>order to get this to work. Currently, it just has the
>one ethernet port that is used for the DSL connection.
>If I enable ICS, will this same ethernet port be able to
>handle the connection from my laptop? Or do I need a
>separate ethernet card to handle comms with the laptop
>and then relying on ICS to route traffic from this new
>ethernet card to the original ethernet port that is used
>for the internet connection?
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>.
>
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