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The good, bad and the ugly on ICS with win 2000

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Unclemo

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I just installed win 2000 on my server. I used to use wingate 3.0 before to share my internet, but after haivng some trouble getting it to work in win 2000 I decided to just try the builtin ICS. It was very simply and everything around seems to work great. So, what's the catch? What's bad about it? Also, is there any chance that my client PCs connect a bit slower to the net than what used to be ussing wingate before? Another words, is wingate more effecient than the built in ICS?
Thanks
 
You will love ICS. Takes less time to set up then taking a crap. All you have to do is go into your nic properties that your ineternet is on and click internet sharing. It configures your other nic that is on your network for you. Then just set your other comptuers to use dynamic ips and you are set. Took less then 5 mins to configure. Oh ya, you will want to delete all your old configs in your internet programs that you had from the proxy server. This works much better then a proxy server too, ICS is 100% transparent. Im sure you know how frustrating a non transparent proxy can be. You asked for the bad of ICS, well cant think of too many things. For one you cant use static ips, which I like, but cant use. You can use them, but microsoft dose not support if it will work or not, it didnt happen to for me. The disadvantage may be that you do not have internet site/adctivity logging or restriction, or a built in firewall. You can download other programs for logging internet activity, and you can get a firewall like zonealarm which is free. Here is a question though for anyone who knows more on this. ICS did not work for me until I used the same subnet on my nic that has my cable modem on my nic that goes to my network. Anyone have any ideas on this? Weirdest problem I have ever ran accross.

Hope this helps
Garrett.
 
My only complaint is that it won't allow configuration of the internal ip. It defaults to 192.168.0.1 and won't let you change it. Just a quick reconfig of my DHCP server, but still annoying
 
A little Q. from my side. Does it work completely tranparent. IE. does all applications work? I'm mostly concerned about getting UT and flight simulator to work with it.

Thanks
 
It was transparent for me, but I didnt try to play any games over the connection. My test box is a little underpowered for that 😛
 
Yup its transparent with any application. Games included, my biggest complaint about proxy servers is they didnt always allow this.

Garrett.
 
The one thing I love about Win2K's ICS is Dial On Demand. Lets the Win2K "server" automatically dial your modem when a connection is needed.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support unattended disconnections (or I haven't found that feature yet). So I have to set this "server" to disconnect after 20 minutes of inactivity.


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