interesting question

[sa]

Hi all,

I have to set up a 2000 SOHO with an ADSL, the problem is that ADSL is not so suitable for networks as it uses DHCP, therefore I can't use the 2000 NAT features as I can't specify the external IP address.

What can I use?

any suggestions?

[Robert Mc]

I use ADSL also at home, with 8 workstations connected. Just use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) If you have it installed, go to the properties for the ADSL connection and there should be a sharing tab, ICS uses a stripped version of DHCP to hand out addresses, I also run DCHP to set other parameters, it works fine for me.

is ICS avaialble on 2000 server?

how did u configure the dhcp ???? as the ICS handing out the ip addresses so that's like you have 2 dhcp servers on the lan?


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Robert Mc at 11/14/2001 9:32:12 AM


I use ADSL also at home, with 8 workstations connected. Just use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) If you have it installed, go to the properties for the ADSL connection and there should be a sharing tab, ICS uses a stripped version of DHCP to hand out addresses, I also run DCHP to set other parameters, it works fine for me.

[Bartman]

ICS works fine except, you do not get the management and control over stuff it does very well. If you want you could do it another way...
Set up Win2k as a router...Set up ur NIC(WAN) connected to ur DSL router normally. Then ur second NIC(LAN) with a static internal IP, this is ur gateway to the client computers. Now the tricky part is u need to assign the second NIC(LAN) a gateway, which is the 1st NIC but the IP varies. The MAC address never does however. Each time u reboot your computer u can have a simple script run finding the IP address of ur first NIC and assigning that as the default gateway based on the 48-bit MAC address (there are plenty of them on the Net to pick from and modify)

-Bartman
MCSE, CCNA, A+


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sa at 10/28/2001 5:45:06 PM


Hi all,

I have to set up a 2000 SOHO with an ADSL, the problem is that ADSL is not so suitable for networks as it uses DHCP, therefore I can't use the 2000 NAT features as I can't specify the external IP address.

What can I use?

any suggestions?