Re: Where does WinXP store ICS connection information?
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <bcmaven@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:23:24 -0600
In article <1145443342.422927.148680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "M
Shedden" <google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to be able to switch easily between 2 connections as the one
which shares my internet connection.
ICS uses two network connections: one for connecting to the Internet,
and one for connecting to other computers on the home network.
Do you want to switch between two different Internet connections, or
between two different home network connections? How is your network
(or networks) set up physically? What connects to what?
My first attempt was simply to change which connection is in the
internet connection properties, but it changes the IP address of each
connection to 192.168.0.1 every time it is changed, which makes it more
hassle than I am happy with.
When you share an Internet connection, ICS changes the IP address of
the home network connection to 192.168.0.1. This is by design and
can't be changed. Why is it a problem?
My next attempt was to make a copy of the internet connection, so that
I could have a second one shared with the other connection; however XP
only lets you share one internet connection at a time.
I don't know of any way to make a copy of a network connection. If
you do, please explain how.
Yes, ICS only lets you share one Internet connection at a time.
My next attempt was to find it in the registry so I could just run a
.reg file each time I wanted to change connection, but I can't find the
information in the registry... where is it! Is it in a system file
somewhere? I don't want to mess about with any 3rd party software as
this should really be a very easy thing to do... if only I knew where
the info lives.
To the best of my knowledge, XP doesn't store ICS information in the
registry.
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