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Chapter 6—Serial Ports and Modems
Interface Card) that connects you with the client PC’s that will
share the connection.
Windows will create a client configuration floppy and will prompt
you to reboot the computer.
When you view the Network Configuration in the Control Panel
after rebooting, you should see the following:
• Three “adapters” (your actual NIC, the Dial-Up adapter, and
a new one called Internet Connection Sharing)
• Three Internet Connection Sharing protocol entries, listing
the previously mentioned adapters
• Three TCP/IP protocol entries, listing the previously mentioned
adapters
The TCP/IP protocol entry for “Home” must point to the NIC that
connects the clients to the host PC; the TCP/IP protocol entry
called “Shared” must point to Dial-Up Networking; and the remaining
TCP/IP protocol entry must point to Internet Connection
Sharing.
Also, check the TCP/IP configuration for “Home” (the NIC) and
verify the IP address; it should be 192.168.0.1. This IP address must
be provided to the computers that will share the Internet connection.
If the settings aren’t correct, remove ICS and start over.
Start an Internet connection on the gateway (host) computer
before continuing.
Configuring ICS on the Client Computers with a Windows
9x/Me Host
Although the ICS configuration process on the gateway (host) computer
created a disk that can be used for setting up the ICS connection
on client computers, most non-Microsoft sources advocate
using manual configuration instead. The following steps are
required:
• Install the TCP/IP protocol on each client.
• Set the Gateway option in the TCP/IP properties for each
client’s NIC to the IP address of the gateway (ICS) computer:
192.168.0.1 is the usual value (see above). Click Add to insert
this value after you enter it.