Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) makes it possible for home and small office users to share a single connection to the Internet. The Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) protects connections on which it is running from unsolicited network traffic.
TweakHound - Windows XP Services Default Settings Guide Windows XP Services Default Settings Guide. By Eric Vaughan. Nov. 08, 2004. This guide lists the default service configurations for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Services that have been added, removed, or had the default settings changed are highlighted in bold text. Windows Firewall/ICS service cannot start - Firewall Windows Firewall/ICS service cannot start - posted in Firewall Software and Hardware: Been cleaning up an older computer and recently this problem has turned up: Windows Firewall is not on and in WIN XP ICS DHCP Problem - Clients are all 169.254.XX.XX I have a Home network that has been running ICS (dialup) among 7 Computers for over 9 years through 4 different versions of windows. The Host is running WinXP Pro, and the clients are all XP Home or Pro at this point. Suddenly last week, I lost the ability to share dialup on all the clients. The ICS DHCP server is no longer assigning network
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Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was the successor to both Windows 2000 for professional users and Windows Me for home users. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.
Windows XP ICS has some notable advantages over the versions of ICS in Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Me: It's easier to set up. There's no software to install, and it doesn't add any network components or protocols. It's much more reliable and much less likely to cause network problems.
Windows XP ICS has some notable advantages over the versions of ICS in Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Me: It's easier to set up. There's no software to install, and it doesn't add any network components or protocols. It's much more reliable and much less likely to cause network problems. Configuring ICS on Windows XP - Petri