Switch from ICS to Router Conflict

[tshall]

This is our first attempt at networking. My son and I ran a cat5 from his computer to our main computer. We used a crossover and ICS and it worked fine. We decided to change to a D-Link DI-604 router so switched from crossover back to straight through. We are receiving the following message on the main computer when booting up; “The system has detected a conflict for IP address 192.168.0.1 with the system having hardware address 00.40.05.BF.CB.FB. The interface has been disabled. We are using ME on both computers and have DSL. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[reboot]

Go into Networking on each computer, and remove any settings you made before pertaining to IP and such, set each to get IP via DHCP.
The conflict you're getting is a manually assigned IP (192.168.0.1) on one computer is probably the same IP the router is trying to assign.
You could remove ALL networking components, and re-run the wizard on each to set it up.
If you need step by step, check at www.homenethelp.com for loads of great info.

[tshall]

Thanks for your reply Reboot. So do I simply check obtain automatically?

[reboot]

Yup, it's that simple. The router looks after all IP's and traffic, no more messing with settings in windows.

[tshall]

Must be something I don't have quite right then. Unless I enter an IP manually I can't get on the internet. I put 192.168.0.100 in and got right on, but went back and tried again to get it to find automatically and couldn't get on. ???

[reboot]

OK, when you say, you put in the IP...do you mean, you set it to manual in the Advanced/Alternate section of TCP/IP Properties?
If the WINS or GATEWAY settings are wrong, it won't get an IP from the router. Check the router setup screens to make sure the router is assigning IP using DHCP.
To avoid confusion, remove all networking protocalls, restart the computer, and go to Start > Run > and type in: inetwiz
Make the connection.
Once you're on the net, go to Start > Run > and type in: netsetup
Set up the computer as a "Residential Gateway", make the diskette on the last step, and then run the diskette on the other computer.
That should sort it all out.
Once that's done, you can select which folders to share on each computer. No need to worry about security any more, the router will hide the computers from internet snooping.

[tshall]

Thanks for your help Reboot, but I'm lost or not doing something right. There isn't anything in wins or gateway. I went to the control panel>network>Configuration>TCP/IP>(home computer)>ethernet card>properties and typed in the ip address and subnet mask. Doing it that way is the only way I can get on the net. I tried following your recommendation and couldn't get on the net. Don't know what I'm not doing, but something simple I'm sure. Thanks again.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Obviously, posting the O/S you're running would be very helpful. In any case, you need to go into advanced options to setup DHCP and WINS, they're not on the basic TCP/IP options screen.

[jamesrpm]

He said they are using ME in his first post gunrunner

[Confused]

Have you set the router up with the IP address? Router holds IP address and PC's are set to obtain IP address automatically.
Chas

[tshall]

Yes my os is ME. Could somebody explain what and how to set up in advanced. Right now under Property it's "Allow Binding To ATM and Value is No. Yes confused, the router is set up and it uses the same ip 192.168.0.1 so I specified 192.168.0.100. I can get on then, but when I tell it to find it automatically I can't get on net. One additional note, I called my ISP this morning and visited with one of the tech support people and he told me it is quite difficult to get a router to work with wireless and the only luck they've had is to add a wireless bridge? Thanks in advance.

[tshall]

Finally! I doubt there is anybody out there that knows, or knew less about networking than me, but I'll post this anyway. After hooking up the router we couldn't get the other computer online. I kept reading and looking at the router and decided that it just couldn't work the way I had it hooked up. I called D-Link to confirm my thinking and a very polite tech person confirmed my suspicions. The router is acually made to be used with DSL, or cable and I'm using wireless sattelite which was wired directly into my main computer. I called my ISP tech person and he said I probably needed a bridge. Now after installing the bridge and another $100 it works fine. I suspect there is another way to do it that would require more configuration, but this works. Oh well, live and learn.

[reboot]

Well...now we find out that you had a "non-standard" bit of hardware to throw in the works
Glad it's sorted