Internet Gateway

[LoboVerde]

I just did a clean install like I normally do. During the process of doing my windows updates, services.msc tweaking, anitvirus updating I went to My Network Connections to Show icon when connected to the network and I noticed that in the Network Connections window it said I have an Internet Gateway. My computer is hooked up to a router > dsl. I've never seen this show up before. I didn't do the xp home networking wizard to make my computer a gateway. And how can my computer be a gateway when it's hooked up to my router then the router to the dsl modem??? I'd appreciate some help on this. I can't disable the Internet Gateway or do anything with it.

[gamehead200]

I'm guessing you have a Linksys router, because this happened to me as well...In your Linksys settings, if you really want to get rid of this, you have to disable UPnP Services...This is found under the Password tab...

Hope it works out!

[LoboVerde]

Thx gamehead2000, but I don't have a Linksys router. I have a D-Link DI-604 router. But I'll check my router for the UPnP.

[Tinker]

This has happened to me before. If I remember correctly the internal connection has the IP address from the DHCP in the router and the local area connection has an internal IP address. What I did to get rid of the internal connection is manually configure the local area connection with the address from the router. After doing that the internal connection disappeared.