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Tenacity - 03 Apr 2006 17:09 GMT

I have 2 NIC cards on my laptop
1. built in Intel which is connected to Internet through DSL router and has
Internet Sharing enabled
2. Linksys PCMCIA card. This has static IP address and PING to the card is
successful, so the card is functioning.

I have connected to the PCMCIA NIC a Linksys IP Phone. This needs to get an
IP address from my computer. It is NOT getting the address from the computer
even though DHCP is ENABLED on the phone.

Any help in how to configure the laptop to enable the IP phone to
communicate will be appreciated. Thanks.

When I give the Phone a static IP address in same group as the IP address of
the PCMCIA NIC card, I can PING the phone so it is being seen, but again the
Internet is not shared to the Phone so the phone is unusable.

Note I ran the Home Office Networking Wizard and DID share Internet on the
built in Intel card.

Do I also have to separately enable Internet sharing on my PCMCIA NIC card?
Is it possible to share Internet on 2 NIC cards on same computer where only
one of them is actually connected to the Internet?

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Gerard Bok - 03 Apr 2006 18:59 GMT

>I have 2 NIC cards on my laptop
>1. built in Intel which is connected to Internet through DSL router and has
>Internet Sharing enabled
>2. Linksys PCMCIA card. This has static IP address and PING to the card is
>successful, so the card is functioning.

>Is it possible to share Internet on 2 NIC cards on same computer where only
>one of them is actually connected to the Internet?

Well, that's certainly not the way Microsoft intended ICS to work

:-)

You could try to install a bridge between both your Intel and
Linksys NIC.
Not sure if this actually does the trick, so cross your fingers

:-)

(Bridge is one of the options XP offers under properties as soon
as you have more than one network-capable interface installed.)

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

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Mr. Backup - 06 Apr 2006 17:18 GMT

IP phone is connected how?

Do you just plug in via RJ45 to a switch or is it some USB type of device.

Also when you enable ICS you should manually configure your 2nd network
card.

It light terms it works like this. You have 2 network cards; [1] being the
external card (wherein you get your IP from your internet provider (or
network). Note: If you're on a switch / DSL / Cable Router there is no
need for ICS as there is a device issuing IP's via DHCP). [2] you have your
2nd network card this is your internal card (don't configure this as ICS
will do it for you when you share out the 1st network card and it will add a
DHCP service to issue to your network on the internal card.

The 2nd card will have the IP Address of: 192.168.0.1 with the subnet mask
of 255.255.255.0 with no gateway (because it is now the gate way for the
subnet, and using NAT to forward your traffic.) Now if you were you plug a
network cable to your 2nd NIC and plug the other end into a switch / hub you
will now have a network that will issue IP to any network device that is
requesting an address.

Now back to the top where you said you have a DSL Router; if this is true.
Then you do not need ICS as something is issuing IP addresses.

Also if you're attempting to just plug a phone into the 2nd network card
without a crossover cable it will not work. You will need a hub or switch.

>I have 2 NIC cards on my laptop
> 1. built in Intel which is connected to Internet through DSL router and
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> only
> one of them is actually connected to the Internet?

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