In article <e#FUQHnBGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Stefan
<stefan@no-email.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a strange problem with Internet Connection Sharing. I have one
>computer ("HOST") with two network adapters. One adapter is connected to
>the Internet and has a static public IP. The second adapter is connected
>to my second computer using a crossed cable. This second adapter has IP
>192.168.0.1 (subnet 255.255.255.0) assigned; my second computer's
>("SLAVE") adapter has IP 192.168.0.2 (subnet 255.255.255.0) assigned,
>the Default Gateway is set to 192.168.0.1 and Primary DNS to
>192.168.0.1. Both my computers are part of the same WORKGROUP. On my
>HOST computer i enabled Internet connection sharing for my Internet
>adapter (i configured all settings manually without any luck, then i
>used Network Setup Wizard and i got the same result). My HOST computer
>has no problem accessing the Internet.
>
>The problem is that i cannot connect to the Internet from my SLAVE
>computer. I can ping the HOST computer (192.168.0.1), i can ping my
>Internet IP (my HOST computer second adapter) and nothing more. If i try
>to ping a host i get "Request time out". I HAVE Sygate Personal Firewall
>enabled on my HOST computer with a rule saying "Allow all traffic from
>192.168.0.2 ip on all ports". I have turned OFF Windows Firewall on both
>machines (no other firewall or security application is running on my
>HOST or SLAVE computer).
>A tracert to any ip / host gives me:
>
>tracert google.com
>
>Tracing route to google.com [72.14.207.99]
>over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ZEUS [192.168.0.1]
> 2 * * * Request timed out.
> 3 * * * Request timed out.
> 4 * * * Request timed out.
>And so on.
>
>I was thinking the problem could arrise from the fact some windows
>services are stopped on my HOST or / and SLAVE computers so i checked
>with a clean Windows XP Pro and configured all services as they look
>like on a fresh system.
>
>Any help would be really appreciated (i'm trying to solve this problem
>for about 2 months now).
>
>Stefan

Some firewall programs are incompatible with ICS on the host computer.
As a test, I'd enable the Windows firewall, disable the Sygate
firewall, and see if that solves the problem.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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