Make my Client PC a Router

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What is your question? It is a waste of resources to use a PC as a router as you can buy a router for about ?50 to connect a number of PCs to the internet. They usually have a firewall. A wireless router is much more convenient and can connect several PCs

I'm with computab on this one. You can buy a router for $50 USD. Just hook up the router to the LAN switch instead of the PC. Actually, you won't make the XP PC a "router" as it won't "route" traffic behind it to different PC's [e.g. read packet info and "route" packets downstream to the appropriate requesting or requested PC] rather the PC will act as a "Gateway".

Well, since you have asked here I will give you some information. Buying a router is best way but if you would like to read on about turning your pc into a router, best way to go is turning it into some linux flavour because XP doesn't have the resources for that as in hardware. And its very cheap as well :)

I've used Coyote (www.coyotelinux.com) to turn an older machine into a router using a single floppy image. You will need 2 network card but have to check which one is supported by going to coyote website.

THere is a tutorial u can look at.
http://www.sagewerks.net/networktutorial3a.html

Hope this helps!

change the key ipenablerouter from 0 to 1 under hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrollset\services\tcpip\parameters and you're routing for ?0

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