On 27 Sep 00, at 7:40, Cesar Mendoza wrote:

> I have 2 computers in my home network using the same telephonic
> line to connect to the internet, when one of them connects, the
> line is busy, so the other one cannot. If I use the Windows 98
> Connection Sharing one of them must act as the gateway, with an
> static address (192.168.0.1) and the other must obtain its address
> dynamically from the "gateway" in order to gain access to the
> Internet. The problem is that the "gateway" must connect first. I
> want to be able to share the connection no matter which one of them
> connects first, is this possible?

  I'm fairly certain that if you use ICS, and the machine which is
not the gateway ttries to access the Internet, ICS will make the
gateway dial so that this can happen.

David G

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