Connecting a wireless router to XP pro

17 Sep 2006 5:42 AM

RobertC

The first part of this amy not seem to be an XP issue. However, I will get to
the point.
My problem is this, I am working at a University in China. I want to be able
to connect to the internet with my iBook (running OS x) and my wifes Toshiba
(running XP). At the present, I can only connect with the university
computer, in my appartment, that is running XP professional.

I brought my AirPort with me. However, even when I put in all of the IP
settings, I still can not connect to the Internet. I believe that this is due
to a authentication program that is running on the university supplied pc.
The PC is running a program called, "Ruijie Supplicant." I believe that this
program supplies password authentication to the server.

What I want to do is to leave the university computer connected to the LAN,
and add a second NIC to it. I then want to connect that NIC to the AirPort
(wireless router) and use the airport to connect my personal computers. Doing
this should send the traffic through the university PC that has authenticated
itself with the Ruijie Supplicant program, to the airport, to my laptop.

Will this work? I will want to use a different range on the second nic and
the wireless network so that it is not easly visible to the rest of the
campus, do I manually set the second NIC or let the DHCP from the router feed
in to it (the NIC connected to the campus is using a fixed IP)?

The reason for not just adding a wireless NIC to teh PC is that I can not
find a wireless NIC. I have asked and WiFi is legal here, it is just not very
common. Any other help would be appreciated.

17 Sep 2006 6:19 AM

Chuck

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:42:01 -0700, RobertC <Robe***@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

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>The first part of this amy not seem to be an XP issue. However, I will get to
>the point.
>My problem is this, I am working at a University in China. I want to be able
>to connect to the internet with my iBook (running OS x) and my wifes Toshiba
>(running XP). At the present, I can only connect with the university
>computer, in my appartment, that is running XP professional.
>
>I brought my AirPort with me. However, even when I put in all of the IP
>settings, I still can not connect to the Internet. I believe that this is due
>to a authentication program that is running on the university supplied pc.
>The PC is running a program called, "Ruijie Supplicant." I believe that this
>program supplies password authentication to the server.
>
>What I want to do is to leave the university computer connected to the LAN,
>and add a second NIC to it. I then want to connect that NIC to the AirPort
>(wireless router) and use the airport to connect my personal computers. Doing
>this should send the traffic through the university PC that has authenticated
>itself with the Ruijie Supplicant program, to the airport, to my laptop.
>
>Will this work? I will want to use a different range on the second nic and
>the wireless network so that it is not easly visible to the rest of the
>campus, do I manually set the second NIC or let the DHCP from the router feed
>in to it (the NIC connected to the campus is using a fixed IP)?
>
>The reason for not just adding a wireless NIC to teh PC is that I can not
>find a wireless NIC. I have asked and WiFi is legal here, it is just not very
>common. Any other help would be appreciated.

Robert,

What you're talking about should be fairly simple. You want to run ICS, which
makes your computer (the uni computer) into a NAT router. As long as the uni
computer isn't getting a 192.168.0.x IP address on its WAN side (the Internet
service), then ICS will do fine. But you will have a small bit of work yet.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/ics-is-ok-but-you-can-do-better.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/ics-is-ok-but-you-can-do-better.html

Add the NIC to the uni computer. Get it installed and tested. Connect it to
one of your computers, and at least ping each from the other. Use Ethernet for
testing.

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the uni computer (do you have admin access?).
Select
This computer connects directly to the Internet. The other computers on my
network connect to the Internet through this computer.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#ICSHost>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#ICSHost

Connect the uni computer to the Airport, on a LAN port (NOT WAN). Disable DHCP
on the Airport.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html

Connect a second computer, by Ethernet initially, and test the ICS - router
(access point) using Ethernet. Run the NSW on the Toshiba, and select
This computer connects to the Internet through another computer on my network or
through a residential gateway.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#NATClient>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#NATClient

Once you know that the second computer will connect using Ethernet, do a WiFi
connection. WiFi is another story.

Once the Toshiba is working, get the iBook working. There you are on your own.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.