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Problems with XP Pro as a router
I have XP Pro on a 64 bit machine with the native NIC card and added two additional NIC cards. All work ok if I configure them and connect to an active network.
The active network (on board NIC) is 10.21.16.54 255.255.0.0 gate 10.21.0.254 dns 10.21.0.100 works fine to the internet. Segment 1 2nd NIC 10.10.10.1 255.255.255 no gate
Computers on that segment are 10.10.10.2-255 gate 10.10.10.1 and cant see internet or other computers on the 10.21.16.X side. Can ping 10.21.16.54 however.
The registry IPEnableRouter = 1 change made.
Machine has been rebooted. Firewalls off.
What am I missing? Must I bridge the cards? Add to the route table?
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Any particular reason you want to use XP as a router OS?
There are plenty of Linux-based OS distributions which would do a better job of acting as a router (and more secure).
No not really. It was just the OS that was on the machine. I also had 3 1G NIC's in this machine. I had planned on running a Lab View on this same machine for some lab environmental controls. Not being a Linux person (yet) what would you suggest?
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Well, what is your application for the hardware?
I have a P4 that I use for a firewall. It has three NICs and sits between my DSL modem and the rest of my home network, so it acts like a router, with two internal LANs (the secure 'Green' and insulated 'Blue') on one side and the Internet on the other. It runs on Smoothwall Express 3.0 a Linux-based firewall OS. It provides for port-forwarding, packet-dropping, content filtering, QoS, etc.
There are server OSs like Clarkconnect, network attached storage solutions like FreeNAS, any number of applications.
It seems to me that using a modern 64-bit machine for plain old routing is kind of a waste of computing power. At the very least, Fold on it.
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Actually the Lab View application could be seperate so a non issue. What I am attempting to do is issolate my lab network from the rest of the coporate network their requirement because of a sox requirement. I have several computers running DOS, Win 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, NT4, Solaris, sco unix, XP and win7. So I need a router to issolate that network. But still allow internet access and maybe a gateway via VNC or something.
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