Hi, You should get DHCP assigned IP addresses even if the modem isn't connected, have you tried that first of all to eliminate the modem from the mix? Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: 06 April 2012 03:23 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] DHCP not working using ICS Hi all, I've been banging my metaphorical head against my metaphorical desk for a while about this one so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. The situation: 3G modem connected to a computer, connection needs to be shared to its lan connection for some other clients. Should just be a straight forward ICS setup - I've done it before; its not that hard. ICS gets enabled and the lan adaptor that its being shared with gets assigned a static ip, but dhcp doesn't work. Even when I run my own dhcp server on the lan adaptor none of the clients get ip's so I'm assuming the connections aren't being shared at all. The 3G modem actually shows up as a dialup connection and after some reading, it turns out that this sort of thing happens quite often when trying to share something that windows thinks is dialup, although nobody has posted a solution. Tried to bridge the connections, but part of the cryteria for enabling bridging is that both connections have to be "high speed" and since the modem shows up as dialup, windows won't let me enable it. Thats all I've tried; does anyone have any other suggestions about how I can do this? Any input what so ever would be great. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins