RE: [COMP] IP routing in Windows


> >just for the record... are you aware you need special software for that?
> >like sygate, wingate, winproxy, ... ?
> 
> I have the entire Backoffice Server suite which includes Proxy server 2.0.
> Shouldn't IP forwarding work without using this software though?

Keep in mind that "Proxy Server" is not IP forwarding/routing, it's meerly
proxying your network.  In other words, with that all setup properly, the
best you could hope for is to point your browser to the proxy server, and
you should be able to pull across web pages.  If you want
routing/forwarding, you have to use products specifically designed to do
that.  Hence, Linux and IP Masquerading. :)  There are products for NT
that do this ( actually, I thought even workstation 4.0 would do it
natively, but maybe not?), but they're commercial/expensive/worse than
Linux.  

John



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