Re: Local computer generates traffic

From: Papa (bikingis_at_my.fun)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:51:55 -0500

Your LAN would be much simpler, and a lot less problematic, if you would
drop ICS and your USB hookup in favor of a router, CAT 5 cables, and Network
Interface Cards (NICs). The router upstream port would connect to your cable
or DSL modem. The downstream ports would connect to a NIC in each PC via
straight-thru CAT5 cables. Alternatively, you could use a wireless router
and wireless NICs. In my LAN setup, I have a wireless router that also
includes wired ports. Three of those wired ports connect to 3 PCs. A 4th PC
connects wirelessly. All 4 PCs are independent of one another, not requiring
that any of the others be running, yet file access from any PC in the LAN to
any other PC in the LAN is available.

"Flemming Knudsen" <FlemmingKnudsen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7BC27ABD-C9EF-4902-B558-E7CC31DA47F9@microsoft.com...
>I connected two computers as a local network. Computer1 is connected to the
> Internet via a broadband connection. I use internet connection sharing.
> That
> works fine. Computer1 has IP address 192.168.0.1 on the local adapter.
> Computer2 gets an automatic IP address from the gateway on computer1.
> What happens is that computer2 generates an enormous traffic to other
> adresses on the 192.168 subnet. These requests propagate to the Internet
> and
> aventually time out.
> They do find a server that belongs to my ISP
> I can follow the traffic with the traffic log of my firewall (Sygate).
> I also notice that the IP address of computer2 changes every few minutes
> although the lease is for 7 days. When this happens the MAC address of
> computer2 also changes!!!
> The connection between the two computers is a USB host link cable from
> Digitus.
> Maybe I should just get a proper Ethernet connection?
> Any other ideas?
>
> ----------
> Flemming
>
> --
> Flemming

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