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How do you explicitly disable routing on a Windows 2000 Server? The
Network Connections dialogs no longer have Routing as a checkbox, as they
did with earlier releases of Windows. The Routing application in
Administrative Tools does a poor job of making a "disable routing" option
clear. If I right click the server name and select Properties in Routing
and Remote Access, the first tab named General will *not* allow me to
disable both Routing and Remote Access. Allowing both to be disabled would
be a nice way to make explicit that the machine is not a router. There is
an additional tab named IP where "Enable IP routing" can be unchecked. But
are all of these options meaningful only when the Routing service is
started? If not, is the absence of a running Routing service equivalent to
turning routing off?
That's strange, because it makes disabling routing in effect a side effect
from not running a service, instead of an explicit configuration option.
Network Connections dialogs no longer have Routing as a checkbox, as they
did with earlier releases of Windows. The Routing application in
Administrative Tools does a poor job of making a "disable routing" option
clear. If I right click the server name and select Properties in Routing
and Remote Access, the first tab named General will *not* allow me to
disable both Routing and Remote Access. Allowing both to be disabled would
be a nice way to make explicit that the machine is not a router. There is
an additional tab named IP where "Enable IP routing" can be unchecked. But
are all of these options meaningful only when the Routing service is
started? If not, is the absence of a running Routing service equivalent to
turning routing off?
That's strange, because it makes disabling routing in effect a side effect
from not running a service, instead of an explicit configuration option.