win 2000 pro as a router

[news man]

I would like to set up a 2000 professional as a router.

I have 2 network cards and have made necessary reistry changes

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
IPEnableRouter = 1

but I can't route !!

eth0 has the default route to my internet router and eth1 is for my other
subnet which I have set the gateway to eth0 ip address.

ANY help would be great !!

thnx
martin k

 

[Jud]

I would like to set up a 2000 professional as a router.

I have 2 network cards and have made necessary reistry changes

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
IPEnableRouter = 1

but I can't route !!

eth0 has the default route to my internet router and eth1 is for my other
subnet which I have set the gateway to eth0 ip address.

ANY help would be great !!

thnx
martin k

Why oh why are you editing the registry for, 2K has ICS (Internet Connection
Sharing)

There is a Help file in windows that shows you how to set up sharing, read
it

Jud

 

[Phillip Windell]

Don't screw with the registry. You aren't creating a "router" anyway,...you
are creating a NAT Device. Use ICS.

The registry entry is related to Windows being used as a router (a *real*
router) not a NAT Device.

It's just another example of the SOHO market destroying the dictionary by
calling their Cable/DSL NAT Devices "routers" when they are not routers, so
now nobody knows what a real router is anymore. Those types of devices do
the same job as expensive Firewall Products like PIX, CheckPoint, and
Watchgaurd but are less "robust". They could easily be called "firewalls"
or "light-weight firewalls", but certainly not "routers".

 

[news man]

sorry I may have confused things here !!

I would like to route between 2 small subnets behind my PIX so I do not want
a nat device just a way of routing 2 differnt small subnets to each other
and possibly thru' the cisco.

Don't screw with the registry. You aren't creating a "router" anyway,...you
are creating a NAT Device. Use ICS.

The registry entry is related to Windows being used as a router (a *real*
router) not a NAT Device.

It's just another example of the SOHO market destroying the dictionary by
calling their Cable/DSL NAT Devices "routers" when they are not routers, so
now nobody knows what a real router is anymore. Those types of devices do
the same job as expensive Firewall Products like PIX, CheckPoint, and
Watchgaurd but are less "robust". They could easily be called "firewalls"
or "light-weight firewalls", but certainly not "routers".


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

I would like to set up a 2000 professional as a router.

I have 2 network cards and have made necessary reistry changes

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
IPEnableRouter = 1

but I can't route !!

eth0 has the default route to my internet router and eth1 is for my other
subnet which I have set the gateway to eth0 ip address.

ANY help would be great !!

thnx
martin k

 

[Phillip Windell]

sorry I may have confused things here !!

Don't worry about it. That is common now due to the SOHO (Cable/DSL) market
as I described.

I would like to route between 2 small subnets behind my PIX so I do not want
a nat device just a way of routing 2 differnt small subnets to each other
and possibly thru' the cisco.

Depends on what OS you are using. NT4.0 was extremely easy,...just enable
"IP Forwarding" in the TCP/IP properties of the NIC. It didn't matter if it
was NT Workstation or Server. It was just that I don't think Workstation had
any "routing protocols" you could add,...but you wouldn't hardly ever use
those anyway.

I heard it can be done with 2000Pro or XP-Pro but I don't have any
information on that and I have doubts about how dependable it would be.

With the Server OS (2000 or 2003) you do it with RRAS. The process is the
same for either OS.
299810 - HOW TO: Configure Windows 2000 to Be a Router
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299810

You could actually buy a cheap LAN Router on E-Bay used maybe cheaper than
using a PC. Just be sure you buy a real LAN router and not a NAT Device or
a router with only one Ethernet port (like the Cisco 2500's, 1600's,
1700's). I think the old Cisco 2600's would be an excellent LAN Router.

You could also look at using a Layer3 Switch,..which is just a Switch and a
Router built into the same device. That is what I use.

 

[news man]

philip thnx

the registry hack worked .

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
IPEnableRouter = 1

this enables ip forwarding much the same as nt workstation.

I had just forgotten to put a static in my internet router ... silly me ..

I just happen to have an old pc doing little else . So now now it forwards
ip over my wireless connection

thnx