I am no expert, but going by my own system, which used to use ICS to connect
my wife's Pc to the internet, the ICS option only appears on a dial up
connection. Dial up includes the USB broadband modem that I used for my
ADSL line. Now that I have switched to an ADSL modem/router my PC connects
via an Ethernet cable (as does my wife's) and neither show the ICS option.
I suspect that by using a router you have negated the ICS facility. To get
it back you would need to have a dial up (or broadband modem pseudo dial up)
set up.

It happens that the broadband dial up software is still on my PC and I have
just checked to confirm that it is only on the dial up connection that I
have an ICS option, there is no such facility on the Ethernet connection.
Hope this helps.
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)



"David J. Braden" <dbraden@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
news:uyAM$tV5FHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Wes,
> Mensch, this stuff drives me nuts when I let it. Thanks for the heads-up
> re the service name-change; Regardless, your info isn't enough for me to
> get things going on my own (and I *do* appreciate your post!!). I may
> have to sacrifice my systems to hacks trained in Windows-Networking
> arcana. Network Wizard is about as useful for my setting up the most
> trivial network as is Excel's number-crunching capabilities are accurate
> (not good, fwiw).
>
> I'm at a bare-bones level (I have no proxy servers, etc.), am letting my
> ISP/router set up the addressing (mistake? dunno), have tried this with
> Windows Firewall (a joke) on and off, and countless other configurations
> out of, what, more than 4536 possibilities just at the easily accessible
> interfaces?
>
> I am new to this newsgroup, and don't yet know if it's the right place to
> be posting. Would you suggest I post to another spot? This NG might be the
> equivalent of the excel.newuser group, which is fine, but not the spot for
> more specific questions.
>
> Again: I have an XP Pro machine with two comm cards; I want to have it
> connect to the Inet, and the rest of my humble LAN connect to the Inet
> through my primary computer. This is a home-based operation (and the IP
> address is whatever my ISP wants to dish out). Where to start?---as all of
> my attempts thus far have been futile. And FWIW, I found setting up a far
> more substantial network some years back with Macs and Suns a hell of a
> lot more straightforward.
>
> Grumpy in Sillycone Valley,
> Dave Braden
> (Excel)
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23AlqvGN3FHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> This service is renamed to Windows Firewall (ICF) and Internet Connection
>> Sharing (ICS) after the installation of Service Pack 2.
>>
>> This service was named Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet
>> Connection Sharing (ICS) with Service Pack 1a.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:%230ljJn$2FHA.476@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
>> David J. Braden <dbraden@nomail.invalid> hunted and pecked:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm trying to get two PCs networked, one to share a connection with the
>>> other (it has two LAN cards). I have been able to get these computers to
>>> recognize each other, but the client couldn't get to the Internet.
>>>
>>> Is this possibly because ICS isn't evidently installed for either
>>> computer? I don't see it among the services, and yet I see reference to
>>> it in "XP Inside Out". What can I do, please.
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>> Dave Braden
>>
>
>