Re: [coLinux-devel] Win2k ICS 192.168.0.1 Conflict

[Alejandro R. S. <as...@MI...>]

Actually, yes, I stand corrected... the routing tables would be broken.
I'm used to gateways using the 192.168.1.x space to avoid fighting
windows ICS and its lack of configuration options.

-Alejandro

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 12:30, Nathan Chilton wrote:
> Try it sometime...
> 
> If your wireless card received it's IP address from a
> router at 192.168.0.1, it will have an IP address on
> that subnet.  The default gateway will be 192.168.0.1.
>  If you try to enable ICS on the wireless adapter
> (trying to share the wireless connection with the TAP
> adapter), Windows will report that an adapter is
> already using the address required for ICS.
> 
> If your wireless card is at, say 192.168.0.4 and has a
> default gateway of 192.168.0.1, you cannot then set
> another adapter on your machine to use the same IP
> address as your default gateway.  You cannot access
> two seperate networks with the same address range at
> the same time.
> 
> This is why I run a proxy server on my laptop, rather
> than using ICS under this condition.  Luckily for me,
> I can usually find another wireless router on a
> different subnet, such as 192.168.2.1, which allows me
> to use ICS again.
> 
> Regards,
> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Alejandro R. Sedeno" <as...@MI...> wrote:
> > This shouldn't be a problem because the wireless
> > card should be getting
> > an address from the router and the TAP should be
> > assigned 192.168.0.1.
> > The TAP is on a different network and should not be
> > able to see your
> > physical net. I'm guessing you're trying to share
> > the wrong way. You
> > want to enable ICS on your Wireless nic, which will
> > share that
> > connection with the TAP (or interface of your
> > choosing, if there's more
> > than one option).
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> > 
> > -Alejandro
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 01:18, Jamie Alessio wrote:
> > > I installed coLinux about a week ago and have it
> > up and running smoothly 
> > > on my IBM Thinkpad laptop running Win2k. The
> > laptop has both a built-in 
> > > ethernet card and a wireless pcmcia card. I had no
> > problems using the 
> > > bridged networking setup to get the coLinux
> > instance full network access 
> > > over built-in ethernet, but I would really like to
> > get it working over 
> > > my wireless link since that's what I typically use
> > on the laptop.
> > > 
> > > According to the coLinux wiki WinPCAP does not
> > work for wireless 
> > > connections so the bridged setup is out. But, it
> > seems that I should be 
> > > able to use the TAP-Win32 plus Internet Connection
> > Sharing setup to get 
> > > the wireless card to route traffic from coLinux.
> > At the moment I'm 
> > > hitting a very Windows-ish wall that I can't get
> > past - when I enable 
> > > Internet Connection Sharing on the wireless card
> > Windows forces the IP 
> > > address to be 192.168.0.1. The problem is that
> > that IP address is 
> > > already in use on the wireless access point/router
> > I am connected to and 
> > > thus Windows fails to activate Internet Connection
> > Sharing since it 
> > > can't allocate 192.168.0.1 for itself. I suppose
> > one simple solution is 
> > > to just change the IP address of the router but it
> > is physically located 
> > > in another building and I do not have admin access
> > to it.
> > > 
> > > So, how do you use the TAP-Win32 plus Internet
> > Connection Sharing 
> > > solution on Win2k on a network that already has
> > 192.168.0.1 allocated? 
> > > Surely someone else must be on a network using
> > that IP as a gateway and 
> > > or dhcp server and has run into this already?
> > > 
> > > - Jamie
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
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