XP, ATA & 2 Nics.

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 8

Okay so i'm doing a geek config here, I'm going to a location where I have 802.11 wireless network connectivity - want my ATA to work. My laptop is running XP I have a wired network card as well as the wireless, I want to be able to have my ATA use the wired card and feed off the wireless network to get it's IP. I'm running into some issues however - I know you can bridge a network connection in XP but that doesn't seem to work, when I bridge the two the wireless card doesn't get an IP. I also know you can do routing in XP (it's a little known registry entry) but that doesn't solve the DHCP issue - is there a DHCP server to run on xp professional? If I could break into the ATA i could assign a static IP to it I guess. I also have Redhat on here, but didn't want to mux around with trying to get all that working right now.

Any ideas?

Kevin

Posts: 106 · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

yeah just use xps built in ics to share the wireless connection via the wired nic.. right click wireless properties.. advanced.. etc etc. etc..
should work for you

Posts: 106 · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject:

yeah just use xps built in ics to share the wireless connection via the wired nic.. right click wireless properties.. advanced.. etc etc. etc..
should work for you

and yeah.. bridging a wireless connection = problems yes it's able to be done but it's not what you need in this case

Posts: 54 · Full Forum Member Joined: May 01, 2003 Posts: 54

There used to be a problem with Windows ICS having way too short a DHCP lease time for the ATA to be effective on ICS. I do not believe this has been fixed.

The problem is that ICS is known to set DHCP lease times in the 5-10 minute range (usually around 6 minutes). This will cause your calls to drop when the IP lease ends (even if it keeps the same IP address).

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 8

Also have another problem I ran into, the wireless network I was connecting to gave me an ip of 192.168.0.whatever the ICS wants to assign the same range and use .1 as the default route but can't because it is already being used for the wireless card (so it gives an error that another device already has the IP) anyone know how to change what range the ICS uses??