Re: FN-FORUM: XP Gateway

date posted 18th January 2005 13:14

General advice is to give up and buy a router BTW.

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Kathy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Djon Ma" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: XP Gateway


>
>
> Sorry about the lack of subject - I'm fiddling with
> Yahoo's webmail and the list refusing html mail.
> Had to redo the mail and then forgot my subject.
>
> I set the box up to use ICS, it still didn't work.
> I'll have another play with it tonight I guess.
> I unchecked the firewall box to see if that was the
> problem, and we have a good anti-rubbish policy.
>
> Nicola
>
> >
> > If you want your XP box to be the gateway, run ICS
> > on it. There's a wizard.
> > If you have cleared the firewall box on your
> > external connection, you'll
> > need to clean up all the viruses and spyware you
> > have collected since doing
> > that before you do anything else. Of course the XP
> > box must rally BE the
> > gateway (ie it must have one connection to the
> > outside world and one to the
> > internal network - two NICs or a modem and a NIC)
> >
> > Please put a subject in your message next time
> >
> >
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> > Kathy
> > http://www.vendetta.co.uk
> > +44(0)7005 982 261
> > DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating
> > Information and Trivia
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Djon Ma" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:29 AM
> > Subject: FN-FORUM:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hiya folks,
> > >
> > > I tried to set up one of the XP boxes on my home
> > LAN
> > > to be the gateway last night.
> > >
> > > It didn't work. My computer (Win2K3) can't ping
> > the XP
> > > box at all, though the XP box can see and ping my
> > > computer.
> > >
> > > No other computers will see the internet via the
> > XP
> > > box.
> > >
> > > I unchecked the firewall box on the modem
> > connection
> > > settings and it still doesn't work.
> > >
> > > How do you disable XP's internal firewall? Or has
> > > anyone got any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Ta
> > >
> > > Nicola
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Nicola Dunn