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Setting UP NT machine as a Router

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by tim

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How do I set up a NT Server Machine as a router. I want to use one machine as the router and have 15 other machines use it as a gateway. I have already set up IP routing but not sure on how to use the routing commands.

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by some guy in seattle

The NT machine will need to have a default gateway to route traffic towards the destination. (Note you should only use one default gateway). Simply assign a gateway to one of the NICs. This will forward traffic from this machine to that IP address if it does not know where to send it otherwise.

Check routing on the command line by typing "route print" or "netstat -an" (no quotes). If you need to add static routes the command is "route add mask metric " For example:

route add 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1 metric 1

This will forward anything for 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 telling it to expect 1 hop. From the sounds of it you shouldn't have to go this level, however.

Hope that helps -

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