NT4 and IP Routing PLEASE HELP URGENT

[reicherb]

How do I set up an NT4 Server to route IP? I have local Win98 machines that I want to access the internet through my NT4 machine. Can you please step me through the setup?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Dyngoe]

An easy solution is using Sygate or NAT32. I know NT4 can share internet connections. ICS is a decent program, but I have had better luck with Sygate personally. What are you hoping to achieve? Is this a home LAN or business LAN? what kind of internet connection do you have? How is your LAN setup now? With some more info, I would be glad to help.
As Always,
D

 

[reicherb]

It's for a senior project in college. I am planning to setup a firewall that says it needs IP routing enable before it can be installed and I don't have a clue how to enable it.

 

[CBuxton]

You need to have 2 NICs installed, one on the public IP address, one on the internal address. Then you go into properties of TCP/IP I believe and under the Routing tab, just select the "enable IP forwarding" check box. You make your internal NIC have a default gateway with the IP address of your external NIC, and your external NIC has the DG of your ISP. That's all there is to it.

 

[reicherb]

When I set the inside adapters default gateway to the outside adapters IP address I loose all IP communications. I can't ping the inside or outside and the inside still can't ping the outside. I have enabled IP forwarding.

IP forwarding works just fine on Win2000 server but the firewall I want to install will only work on NT4. Why doesn't anybody make sotware for 2000?

 

[reicherb]

anybody got any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Dyngoe]

Are you simply looking for a way to share internet? Or do you need to use NT4 for this project? There is a multitude of info in these forums on the subject of internet sharing. ICS is the generic choice of most people. I personally like Sygate for the following reasons:
1. Built in Firewall
2. Can be run server side only
3. Add client service for error checking
4. Doesn't suck up resources
While many would say ICS is native to windows and should be simpler, I disagree. Try sygate 4.o or, if you have trouble, try 3.1. It's straight forward with a simple GUI that anyone can use.
As Always,
D

 

[reicherb]

the firewall I want to install will only work on NT4. I am trying to install Checkpoint FireWall-1 for a senior project.

 

[Dyngoe]

Here's a link to another web-site: NT4 with Firewall-1
I'm not sure if this will help you, but I need to brush up on NT4 alitte before I give you any solid advice. If you still can't figure it out, PM me and I'll handle this without bogging down the forums.
As always,
D

 

[reicherb]

looks like that might be the ticket. I'll try that.

thanks a million.

 

[reicherb]

It doesn't seem to want to take the info I'm entering to setup the routing table. Is there another way to do it other than a command prompt?

this is what I have tried:
route -p 192.168.0.1 MASK 255.255.255.0 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (my ip)
ive also tried
route ADD 192.168.0.1 MASK 255.255.255.0 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (my ip)

Thanks.

 

[CBuxton]

route ADD destination IP (not your internal 192.168 ip) MASK netmask gateway ip so, to route from your internal network to 200.200.200.0 using 192.168.0.1 as your gateway you would type:
route ADD 200.200.200.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

That should be about it

 

[reicherb]

no matter what order I put them in I get "The router addition failed: 87"

 

[reicherb]

any other ideas?

 

[reicherb]

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