You don't have to be using ICS to enjoy the benefits gained by installing TreeWalk! Anybody running Windows 2000 or XP can use it. What's holding you back from zipping around the Internet?
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'This graphic shows a network that shares an Internet connection through ICS. This machine acts as a NAT gateway for the other machines and allows them to reach the Internet.
In this case, the ICS machine has two network adapters. The first is connected to the Internet, and could be a modem, router or any other WAN device. This adapter will be configured to get its address through DHCP.
The second adapter is a standard Ethernet interface and is used to connect the machine to the internal LAN. This adapter will be configured to use a static address. This is needed since other machines on the LAN will refer to the ICS machine, using its IP address whenever performing name resolution.
The other machines on the LAN will be configured to get their IP addresses through DHCP, but with a difference. You will need to manually override the DNS settings of these machines and to enter the address of the ICS machine. In the example above the two client machines, "x" and "y", have dynamic IP addresses but will use 192.168.0.1 as their DNS server.
At this point you can install TreeWalk onto the ICS machine. After the installation, reboot the machine and then be sure to reboot both client machines. After this, you'll be able to surf the Internet from either the ICS or the client machines, but the name resolution for the entire LAN will be performed by TreeWalk on the ICS computer.
The advantage of this type of configuration is that there will be less traffic on the LAN due to the fact that all the DNS work will be carried on by a single machine. The DNS cache will have more hits since every request from other LAN computers will be cached by the central DNS, then returned to any machine requesting the same address, or host.'
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