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I have not been able to find an answer to this anywhere, so I'm posting it here.

Issue: connecting a RPi with the latest Jessie update via Ethernet and using a Windows 10 machine to access the internet via Internet Connection Sharing on another network device (eg WiFi).

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  • OK Im quite new and in other Stack Exchange areas I didnt have enough rep to answer my own questions, noted for the future, thanks.
    – Scalextrix
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 17:24
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    OK reframed as a Q&A
    – Scalextrix
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 17:33
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Reset to default
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There is a problem in that Windows 10 will always revert to the following IP address and Subnet Mask whenever ICS is enabled:

192.168.137.1
255.255.255.0

The RPi will not auto-detect this and sets itself with something like:

169.154.72.93
255.255.0.0

Changing the IP & Subnet on the windows machine will not work, because using ICS will over-ride the settings. So a static IP must be set in the RPi, its important to note this should be done in /etc/dhcpcd.conf add the following:

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.137.2
static routers=192.168.137.1
static domain_name_servers=192.168.137.1 8.8.8.8

setting the static DNS is critical, and adding the Windows 10 host, then the address of a real DNS server.

This then allows you to directly plug the RPi into Ethernet and have internet available via Windows ICS.

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  • While I don't doubt that your solution worked, if you set ICS as DHCP server to allocate addresses it should work. I don't have Windows 10, but this works on earlier versions.
    – Milliways
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 22:54
  • I did a search for your solution, I cant find how its done, can you point me to something?
    – Scalextrix
    Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 12:24

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