Anyone used IPEnableRouter flag in registry to enable routing on XP Pro?

[robmurphy]

Has anyone tried using the above flag to enable an XP Pro system to route between 2 network interfaces?

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315236

Basicaly I have 2 home networks. One is a class A gigabit network using 11.0.0.0 as the network. The other is 100 Meg class C using 192.168.1.0 as the network. The 192 network has the router for the internet. I would like to be able to get from the 11 network to the internet. This would allow the laptop I have to remain in the gigabit network. At present I swap the wired connection for the laptop between the 2 networks, depending what I'm doing.

In order to get between the 2 networks I need a router of some type. After some searching I found various articles claiming that XP Pro could be used as a router. I also found the above article from Microsoft. I do not need a firewall on the router as the router connected to the internet already provideds that.

I do not wish to use ICS.

Is there another way of doing this by adding a static route on one of the machines on both networks?

 

[drebo]

The only routing capabilities XP Pro has is ICS. Also, I hope that you mean your gigabit netowrk is on 10.0.0.0, as 11.0.0.0 is a public network.

Aside from that, I don't know why you're overcomplicating this so much. You can run gigabit and fast ethernet off the same switch and in the same subnet. The computers that are gigabit will continue to be gigabit and the computers that only have 10/100 NICs in them will remain 10/100. Plugging a 10/100 card into a gigabit switch does not degrade the entire network to 10/100.

 

[robmurphy]

I can change the 11.0.0.0 back to 10.0.0.0. That network is isolated at present. The network was on 10.0.0.0 and was changed to 11.0.0.0 as my laptop kept connecting to a nearby wireless network that used 10.0.0.0. This created a problem as both the wired and the wireless networks were on 10.0.0.0. That wireless network has gone now, and I hardly use the wireless on the laptop.

When I did my networking courses basic as they were I was told 11.0.0.0 was a private IP address. Having checked it is not.

I wish to keep the 100 Meg and gigabit networks in different networks. Thats my preference. I do not want them on the same subnet.

If routing is not possible on XP Pro then what is this flag in registry for? I appreciate this feature may not be supported by Microsoft and I'm not really worried about that.

Rob.

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENT...load/network/proxy.htm

 

[her209]

Don't know if this would be relevant, but make sure that the Routing and Remote Access service is started. By default, XP has it disabled.