ICS, Pain in the ****

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I have just had to reinstall my server, stupid me did not have a virus scanner on it.

The problem i now have is that i can't get ICS working again, it worked fine before but now it just does not want to play, heres the set up


The cable modem is connected via USB to the server
The NIC in the server is set to 192.168.0.1
DHCP is not install
The Cable modem is shared
All the other machines are set to obtain IP's Automatically

Everything seems to be set up properly, but i must be missing something, can anyone see what?

 

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Hi Nelix,

I can't think of anything else you need to do off the top of my head. Have you tried the obvious, done ipconfig /all to see whether the other machines have picked up an ip address, can they ping the server? Try setting the ip addresses on the other PC's manually, I know the books say use DHCP on the workstations but this has worked for me in the past.

Phil

 

The other machines are picking up 169.x.x.x address

 

They have an APIPA address and not one issued by ICS

 

Have you got a firewall running on the server? (like zone alarm) That could be blocking the ip requests.

 

No Firewall is installed, McSmoothie how di i get the other machine to pick up IP's from ICS instead of APIPA?

 

Yes tried release/renew and registerdns but it tells me that they cannot be released, something to do with DHCP, which is strange as i am not running DHCP as you cant run DHCP and ICS at the same time, they comflict.

 

Set the ip address on one of your workstations to 192.168.0.2/24 then try and ping the server, if you don't get a response then it's possibly a cabling or network card driver issue. If you get a response you've ruled out hardware/drivers between the workstation and server. Is there more than one workstation with an apipa address? if so then the problem has to be on the server. Have you tried removing ics and resetting it?

 

Hi Nelix,

Is the Default Gateway on the clients set to be the IP of the Server, ie 192.168.0.1 ?

sorry if that's a bit obvious, but ya gotta ask the dumb questions too ....

 

Nelix

You shouldn't set the IP address to 192.168.0.1, you should enable the ICS on the "external" interface and IT will give the "internal" interface the 192.168.0.1 address and hand out addresses to the clients.

 

totally agree with Phil. This should give you a better idea.

 

Managed to get it all sorted

Thanks for all the advice

 

What was it in the end nelix?

 

A Mixture of DHCP, DNS, ICS, NAT, and RRA (routing and remote access)

And a little bit of me not being methodical and just trying this and that with no kind of procedure to follow

But i got there in the end and i now know that if the same thing happens again i will know h ow to put it right straight away