Originally Posted by
El Salsero Gringo
Here I am struggling with a Windoze issue, so I throw myself at the mercy of the Forum gurus and ask:
How can I multihome a NIC in windows XP with one DHCP-provided address and one static IP address?
I have a wireless network card that collects an IP address from my ISP via a wireless access point connected to a cable modem. I have a laptop with a wireless card too. I want to use Internet Connection Sharing on the desktop PC so that the laptop can access the Internet by sending packets to the desktop PC, having them NAT'd there and then routed via my ISP. In order to accomplish this I need to give the PC's wireless connection two IP addresses, one public (from the ISP) and one local/private.
This is all easy to achieve if the wireless card has two statically assigned addresses. Unfortunately, when configured to use DHCP the option to enter a second address for the connection is removed.
I have seen and tried - unsuccessfully - a nasty registry hack to do this, but it doesn't have any effect on my PC. Has anyone actually achieved this?
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