About Internet In Windows 2000

Hi,
You need a proxy software or change your OS server with a "Small Business Server".

With 10 clients, a dial up connection will not really provide what you need. You should definitely look into broadband DSL or Cable (generally a good value)...or even ISDN (I've heard it is "coming back" in a very inexpensive form and may well be a good solution in certain circumstances).

You can buy a router and use that to connect your internal network to the internet while offering some security options as well. Linksys has some very attractive products (price/performance wise) availablejust now. Alternatively, you could set up a firewall server running Linux to protect your LAN and offer NAT/IP Masquerading (effectively a software router).

Take a look here for ideas and advice:

http://www.labmice.net/networking/ICS.htm

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/

Good luck...hope this helps!

define the routes

define the routes

define the routes

A router would probably be the easiest way. I do agree with the previous response that you should definitely look into DSL or cable service rather than straight analog dial-up. However, you can do it with dial-up, too, if you want to. All you haveto do is get the appropriate type of router (analog, DSL or cable). LinkSys or NetGear both have inexpensive routers that will automatically do NAT (network address translation) so that you can keep your internal private IP addresses and share onlythe single public IP address provided by your ISP when you dial in. Most of these inexpensive routers have good, simple setup instructions included - if you have sound basic networking and TCP/IP knowledge, you shouldn't have any problem. Hope thishelps!

Actually guys, I have the same question, I would like to use Windows 2000 server or Advanced server in order to be able to share a Cable\DSL connection. I'm already using a linux based router\firewall distro, which works pretty nice, but I would like to learn a little more on AD and TSing on the Windows side. I know that I would have to define the routes, but I don't know exactly what to define. The system I have has 2 network cards, I would assume, if its anything like the linux config, onenic would work on the outside and the other on the inside. But since the IP address is dynamically configured by the ISP, how can this work?

Any help is most appreciated!

Thanks,

Matt

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