ICS/Cable routing table problem

[BMorey]

System: two NICs, one for ICS (Realtek) and the other to the cable modem (SMC).

After a clean install in Win98SE I can no longer access the cable modem. The ICS sharing button shows the NICs are correctly assigned.

After 3 calls the cable co help desk says this is a problem with Win98 -- after a clean install the system looks for the cable network on the first NIC detected during 'detect hardware', in this case the Realtek. Apparently the 'routing tables' in the registry are wrong and aren't corrected by installing ICS correctly.

Suggestion/fixes greatly accepted

Disabling the ICS NIC (Realtek) fixes the problem -- system accesses the internet over the SMC NIC no problem. ICS is out, of course. Re-enable the Realtek and the problem returns.

This is weird as until the reinstall I had been using ICS and cable internet successfully for several months.

 

[paulwood]

Maybe the quickest fix would be to get rid of ICS and use a proxy server program like the AnalogX proxy, which is free from

http://www.analogx.com

It's real easy to set up and use.