ICS and Different Internal IP address

3 Oct 2006 10:18 PM

Pezlin

Hello All,

I'm curious if it's possible to select a different IP range for internal
nodes when using XP's Internet Connection Sharing (i.e. 10.100.100.255
instead of 192.168.0.255).

If not, is there a snapin, or other way of accomplishing this feat?

- Pezlin

4 Oct 2006 2:05 AM

Steve Winograd [MVP]

In article <E5E750D5-7537-4EC2-8AFF-8CAEFC7F0***@microsoft.com>,
Pezlin <Pez***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I'm curious if it's possible to select a different IP range for internal
>nodes when using XP's Internet Connection Sharing (i.e. 10.100.100.255
>instead of 192.168.0.255).
>
>If not, is there a snapin, or other way of accomplishing this feat?
>
>- Pezlin

I don't know why, but Microsoft doesn't provide a way to change the
ICS IP address range in Windows XP. ICS only supports the 192.168.0.x
range, with 192.168.0.1 assigned to the host computer's home network
connection.

You can manually change the IP address of that connection after
enabling ICS. However:

1. There's no guarantee that ICS (or networking in general) will work
correctly if you do.

2. It will disable the ICS host's DHCP server. You'll have to
configure the client computers' TCP/IP properties manually.

3. If you try it, make a restore point first so that you can recover
in case of problems.

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