Automatic Dialing good annoying
Q: The three machines are using Windows XP system, using a Hub and connect a LAN consists of ADSL Modem, using a machine to do the proxy server online. But recently often (especially the host) automatically after a power on the virtual machine to the Internet dial-up, and the machine is offline, the other two machines still can access the Internet phenomenon, is this what is the reason?
A: The reason is simple, by default, ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) Enable "is recommended when a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet a dial-up connection" and "Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection" function ( figure 2). That is, when any computer in the network send Internet request, the ICS host will begin automatically dialing and connecting to the Internet. Some software when the computer starts, it will automatically connect to the Internet, to enable software updates or virus database, therefore, after the computer is turned on automatic virtual dial-up is a very natural thing.
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