ICS, Win XP Pro, DHCP

[Paullandon]

I have 3 XP Pro machines successfully networked via an ADSL+Router, but I currently am not using the ADSL modem here (that's another subject). There is also a USB ADSL modem on one of the machines.

At the moment the router is allocating 10.0.0.x addresses and the networking is fine.

As soon as I enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on the PC with the modem, it becomes a DHCP server and takes the address 192.168.0.1 and none of the other machines or router can see it and I can't even ping the router on 10.0.0.2

Should I continue to struggle to get them networked on 192.168.y.x or should I try to get the ADSL modem on the CNet Router working and stay on 10.0.0.y??

Thanks in advance,
Paul

 

[GlenJohnson]

All my networking has been in the 192.168.x.x ranges, so I think I'd try and make that range work. You may want to put a hosts file on the machines that have problems and see if this helps. Make sure all machines have dhcp enabled. Good luck.

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[Paullandon]

Thanks,

using the /etc/hosts file implies a fixed IP address, nothing wrong with that, except for any laptops plugged in to the network.

I think that idea would mean switching off DHCP on the router or would I get it to allocate 192.168.x.y ranges?

ICS allocates 192.168.0.1, am I stuck with this?

How do I turn on DHCP on all the other clients?

Cheers,
Paul