Limitations
However, while ICS makes use of DHCP, there is no way to review DHCP leases using ICS. The service is also not customizable in terms of which addresses are used for the internal subnet, and contains no provisions for bandwidth limiting or other features. ICS also was designed to connect only to Windows OS computers: computers on other operating systems will require different steps to be able to utilize ICS.
The server will normally have the IP address 192.168.0.1 (changeable from the registry or via the IP settings) and will provide NAT services to the whole 192.168.0.x subnet, even if the address on the client was set manually, not by the DHCP server. Windows 7 uses the subnet 192.168.137.x by default.
Besides making sure that the firewall settings are correct, for Windows XP hosts with more than one Ethernet interface card and a wireless WAN connection, bridging the Ethernet interface cards may help eliminating some ICS problems.
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