Help needed on ICS and Dual port Lan setup

[Mars999]

Hello,
I am on a Asus P8P67 Deluxe MB and I have dual LAN ports, I am assuming I can have the one Lan port hooked to my cable modem as I do now, and I want to have the other port be an access point to the internet and sharing of files... so I can connect a 2nd computer to my desktop and get internet access...

Is this possible and if so I have tried but failed to get internet access on the second computer, I can share files but that is it... So I am assuming gateway, DNS, ect.. are not set correctly? Please provide a step by step guide if possible.

Thanks!

 

[imagoon]

It is by far simpler to just go buy a router. More stable and less power also.

 

[JackMDS]

It can be done but it is saving few $$ on humble Router and in turn you get frequent Headaches.

XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Win 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDyMaWC0Mk


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[Mars999]

So am I reading this correctly? I can't use a standard network cable I need a Null Cable? to make this work when just hooking two computers together using their NIC ports? If so why can I see my other computer and transfer files? But I can't get an internet connection to work?

 

[imagoon]

So am I reading this correctly? I can't use a standard network cable I need a Null Cable? to make this work when just hooking two computers together using their NIC ports? If so why can I see my other computer and transfer files? But I can't get an internet connection to work?

That only applies to 100Mb ports. [technically non auto X ports]

 

[drebo]

On some older 10/100 and even gigabit (Cisco, I'm looking at you) equipment, you needed to use a crossover cable instead of a patch cable to connect two like devices together (two hosts or two switches).

For computers, you shouldn't have to worry about it. But, like others have said, buy a $30 router and many many headaches will be avoided.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've heard reports that when MS multi-threaded the IP/networking stack, they didn't update ICS to properly work with it, so packets appear out-of-order, and generally screw things up, in Win7.

Not sure how much of that is true, or if someone was just having hardware problems.