Can XP Home computer act as an IP router?

I have been instructed on how to implement an XP Pro computer as a router.
The method is quite simple.
BEST ARTICLE --> http://www.home-network-help.com/ip-forwarding.html
The following corroborates the point, but it is incomplete in that it does
not instruct on how to configure the NICs.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/art.../w2kprout.html


I don't have an XP Pro computer, so I tried it on an XP Home computer. It
didn't work.

This site http://www.williamaford.com/XPHomevsXPPro.php mentions only that
"simple TCP/IP services" are provided in 'Pro, but not in 'Home. I didn't
see anything in Paul Thurrott's authoritative reference on the differences
between these to operating systems, beyond this point. Maybe I missed
something, but I don't think so.

Can anyone verify that XP Home or Pro can function as a router?

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