Re: xp pro as a router
From: Alvin Brown (alvin1_at_swbell.net)
Date: 08/09/04
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:55:17 -0500
Hello
Keep this in mind ok, how many pc's are connecting to your
XP Box, rememebr XP Home allows 5 connections, while XP Pro
allows only 10, so if you have more than that many pc's
connecting that could be where your problem is. Just something
to look at.
Al
Ogi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have multiple computers on my LAN however only the xpPro is a windows
> based machine. I am trying to get all the computers to connect to the net
> through the windows XP machine. The windows machine had 2 ethernet network
> connections. One connection goes directly to the cable modem and the other
> goes into an 8 port switch. I basically want the windows machine to act as a
> DHCP server for the other machines so all I would have to do is enable DHCP
> and the other computers can find their way to the internet.
>
> When I attempted to bridge the 2 network connections, the internet
> connection went down on my windows machine. I have also not had any luck w/
> ICS. Thank you for your time and I appreciate any information you may have
> on the matter.
>
> Ogi
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