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Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Miami usually works fine with DHCP as long as there is a valid DHCP service available on the specified network card. No need to manually set up IP addresses if that is the case. [Edit:] eventually you might have to manually enter the IP addresses of at least one *DHCP server* in Miami. In the case of the standard Windows Internet sharing service is acting DHCP, it should be the address the *LAN interface card* has, probably 192.168.0.1, look it up by (on the PC side) entering "ipconfig /all" in a dos "shell", there you will also see the direct adresses of the DHCP server(s) etc on your network) [/edit]
Let me see if I understands you correctly:
You have a PC connected to the Internet through some kind of strange USB gismo.
You also have an Ethernet card (one only??) inside that PC, that is connected to a switch (your "LAN"), on a *regular port* (this is important), and not on an "uplink" port or similar (try using one somewhere in the middle of the row if you are insecure since the "uplink" (or what it may be called on other switches than mine) usually are at one of the two ends of the row).
The PC is powered on, connected, online on the Internet, and you can surf on it and do whatever you want on your Internet connection from that PC.
On the PC side, you have enabled "Internet sharing" on your Internet interface? This enables some kind of a simple DHCP/NAT server for the computers conencted to the extra Ethernet card (the "LAN" card). Rightclick on "my network" icon -> "Properties" and in that window, rightclick on the interface (there should be *at least* two of them) that connects your PC to the Internet (*NOT* the interface that conencts to your LAN). In the "Properties" window you should see a tab at the top that is called "Internet Sharing" or similar, and on that tab you should have enabled Internet sharing on that interface, meaning that the Internet traffic on the other Ethernet card will be "routed" through your Internet connection card.
If you don't see a tab with "Internet Sharing" (and/or if you only see the LAN interface in the "my network" properties window, and not the Internet interface), then it's probably because your Internet is through USB (which is quite odd and not a very supported way of real network connection anyway). I am not certain about this, but it MAY be that the Internet Sharing option only becomes available in Windows if there are *two pure* Ethernet cards in the box, not one strange USB thingy. If this is the case, you may want to consider upgrading to *a real* "broadband modem", one with a real Ethernet. You may need *two* Ethernet cards in your PC, but then it will probably work without problems.
Or have you managed to reach the Internet from another computer (a PC or whatever) that is connected to the Switch in that setup of yours?
Another question; do you have an active firewall on your PC that might block traffic on the PC's Ethernet Interfaces by default?
[ Edited by takemehomegrandma on 2004/7/16 1:19 ]
[ Edited by takemehomegrandma on 2004/7/16 1:34 ]
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