IP routing with Windows XP
Hi there gurus.
I've have for many years had the fuzzy warm comfortable knowledge that under TCP/IP properties there somewhere is an option to turn on "IP Forwarding" to make a router out of an ordinary windows box, even though I've never needed to use this ... I vaguely recall quickly testing it once, but I never realy needed it.
Until now. I now need this option to forward packets between a Wireless card and an Ethernet card in system running Windows XP, but the setting appears to be gone.
I have played arround with network port bridging, I even got it to work, but this is not what I need, I do NOT want to make one network out of two networks, and in any case, the briding was very unstable (Seemed that whenever the Wireless network got disconneced, I had to re-create the bridge, which upset my firewall, and just generally caused me grief)
Does anybody know how I can enable routing of IP packets via a windows XP machine, in particular to route between Ethernet and a 802.11g networks.
Oh, I should add "for free" - my budget is nil. :-)
Thanx,
_Hartz
I've have for many years had the fuzzy warm comfortable knowledge that under TCP/IP properties there somewhere is an option to turn on "IP Forwarding" to make a router out of an ordinary windows box, even though I've never needed to use this ... I vaguely recall quickly testing it once, but I never realy needed it.
Until now. I now need this option to forward packets between a Wireless card and an Ethernet card in system running Windows XP, but the setting appears to be gone.
I have played arround with network port bridging, I even got it to work, but this is not what I need, I do NOT want to make one network out of two networks, and in any case, the briding was very unstable (Seemed that whenever the Wireless network got disconneced, I had to re-create the bridge, which upset my firewall, and just generally caused me grief)
Does anybody know how I can enable routing of IP packets via a windows XP machine, in particular to route between Ethernet and a 802.11g networks.
Oh, I should add "for free" - my budget is nil. :-)
Thanx,
_Hartz
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How many computers do you have and how many are wireless?
The setup is as follow:
Public network (Internet) -> IPCop -> wired lan (10.24.1.*) -> WinXProuter -> WiFi (10.24.2.*).
The notebook computers will be set with a static route for 10.24.1.* via the WinXProuter, and similarly, the wired workstations (including IPCop) will be set with a static route for 10.24.2.* via the WinXProuter.
The access is bi-directional, for example for Peer-to-peer applications, so I do not think Internet Connection sharing is going to work.
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\IPEnableRouter"
by default it's set to 0, you just need to set it to 1.
edit: This says the same thing for confirmation, and gives a bit more info about setting up the IP addresses for the seperate networks.