Setting up Auto Connection to the Internet
with Sharing for ADSL.
1. Get your system to a stage where you can connect using Dialup
networking. (This requires setup of PPPoE protocol on the ethernet
adapter for ADSL access).
2. Under Administrative Tools on the start menu go to Routing
and Remote Access
3. You may need to enable Routing and Remote Access if you haven't
already done so. Do this by right-clicking the local computer
and choosing to enable it.
4. Once it is installed expand the server node in the menu and
right-click on ports and choose Properties.
This brings up the ports configuration window.
5. Find the adapter in the list which is the one that you use
to connect to the Internet. In my case it is the EZ Connect USB/Ethernet
Converter (the one Telstra provided). Select it and then click
the Configure... button.
6. Configure the Device as shown.
7. Click Ok, and OK again. (If Windows complains here you should
probably reboot you computer, perhaps it hasn't been rebooted
since the installation of the hardware device driver, then try
again - it should work after a reboot)
8. Right click the Routing Interfaces node and choose New Demand-dial
Interface...
9. You should see the welcome screen for the Demand Dial Interface
Wizard, click next.
10. Type a name for the ADSL connection.
11. Choose "Connect using a modem, ISDN adapter, or other physical
device" and then click next.
12. Select the hardware device and then click next.
13. Leave the phone number blank and click next again.
14. Choose the following options.
15. Enter your username and password details. eg....
16. Then click finish.
17. You should now see your ADSL dialup adapter in Routing Interfaces
panel.
Set the interface as a Persistent connection. This will make
it start at boot up and remain connected without any user interaction.
Only bind TCPIP to the ADSL interface.
Right click the interface and tell it to connect.
Setting a Default Route
1. Under IP Routing right-click Static Routes.
2. Setting the Network address and Network mask to zeros means
to route to this interface for any hosts without entries in the
routing table. ie. usually any packets not destined for your local/private
networks to will go out on the ADSL interface.
3. You should make sure now that your ADSL Interface is connected
and try visiting a web page. It should work from the machine you've
just been configuring.
Setting up NAT - Connection Sharing
Now that you can use Routing and Remote Access to connect to
the Internet. you can work to share this connection for you need
to install NAT.
Installing NAT
1. Under IP Routing. Right click on the General node. Choose
'Install Routing Protocol".
2. Select Network Address Translation (NAT)
Configuring NAT
1. First thing to do is to specify the ADSL interface you created
in the first part is a public interface.
2. Secondly, you need to tell NAT which networks are private.
Repeat this for any other connections that you may have.
You must now tell the other machines on your network that the
machine you just configured is the default gateway. Also, configure
those machines to use the same DNS servers.
At this stage you should be able to 'ping' an IP address on the
Internet. such as the DNS server from first from the machine you
used to connect to the Internet.
