routing

[jarves 0]

how can i make my windows xp a router?

do i need a third party software for that?

[ScinteX 0]

Try Googling for "Internet Connection Sharing"

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp...earch&meta=

 

However this isn't always the best option since its not technically a "proper" router. For that, you will need to buy a separate piece of hardware.

 

Typically (in the most simplest 'home' type setup) you need this:

 

A router (with or without ADSL modem built in for broadband access).

A network connection on each client (if the client dont have any, just buy PCI netowrk cards- cost about 5 GBP each).

RJ45 cables to connect it all.

 

To expand on this if you have more clients you could buy a hub and give connectivity to more clients.

 

Next step up is "a proper network" lol

 

In a small office/company/enterprise you'll typically have one server acting as the gateway (a proxy), a domain controller, maybe DHCP/WINS etc (plus other servers that might do things like purely control authentication, act as BDCs -backup domain controllers- etc). Depends on the number clients, existing hardware/architecture.. its hard to exactly quantify.

 

 

.... however whatever the size you can generalise and say that all of the clients connect to the gateway/proxy/ADSL router/whatever you want to call it by setting up the "Lan connection" in the browser, and thus use the network connectivity.

 

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[ross_aveling 0]

When the XP machine is multi-homed you can enable routing/IP forwarding with a little registry hack.

 

Here is Microsoft's KB article about it.

[ScinteX 0]

hehe its so easy when you know the answer! lol... good post RA

[ross_aveling 0]

LOL. There's 'nout wrong with your post Scintex, just covering all the angles.