ICS through router?

[DZ187]

I'm having trouble getting ICS to work on my second computer running Win98se. I have it set up so the second computer goes through the router and then it is supposed to use ICS for the phoneline network. When I have Internet Connection Sharing installed I can't get on the internet or browse to the router. At first I thought it was because the ICS machine's IP was 192.168.0.1 (the same ip as the router) so I changed that to 192.168.0.101. So now I thought I should be able to access my router and the internet, but still nothing. I've tried all sorts of configurations with my network properties and I've released and refreshed using winipcfg but still no connections. At this point I'm out of ideas If it helps, all machines are running Windows 98 second edition. Please dont tell me to ditch ICS and hook all the computers up to the router, I'm not going to run cat5 through the house.

Heres a diagram:

-Cable Modem
- -Router (DI-604)
- -My computer
- -My second computer (ICS cpu)
- - -Sisters computer (phoneline networked, downstairs)
- - -Brothers computer (phoneline networked, downstairs)
- - -Moms laptop (phoneline networked)

 

[omv]

Sounds to me like you've got the same subnet or both sides of your computer running ICS.

If memory serves, ICS defaults the new network to be 192.168.0.x (with ICS using 192.168.0.1 as its IP). It sounds like your router is currently using the same subnet, so thats gonna create a problem.

I'd suggest changing ICS shared net to be 192.168.1.x - you should be able to do this by changing its IP to 192.168.1.1. That way, your router will be server 192.168.0.x, your machine running ICS will have some IP address on that subnet, then it will create a new subnet 192.168.1.x.

Thats probably as not clear as it could be, but hopefully gets the point across.

 

[DZ187]

Ok, I followed your advice and I got it somewhat working. First of all, the internet sharing still doesnt work at all. I now get a small yellow ! on my ICS in the device manager. I looked into this and found this.
They are telling me to uninstall the other DHCP provider, but I cant do that as it is my router. The phoneline networked computers can now see the ICS computer's shared files but if I try to access them it will completely freeze up the ICS comp (mouse/keyboard frozen). After that I have to cold boot it to get it to start because a restart will freeze up right before the windows screen.

 

[skyking]

I took a look at the manual. You can change the router's address, and re-do ICS the way it wants to do itself. Move your router to 192.168.2.1 gateway.
Disconnect the phoneline network for a minute. Get your ICS gateway computer working OK, then hook up the phoneline side of things. Share the NIC connection using ICS.

If necessary, and only if it bombs, try disabling DHCP on the router, and assign the two computers IP's and gateway, dns servers manually.