Re: Comparitive analysis... Windows vs. Linux...

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I was talking to a friend today, and he was interested in seeing what it
>would take to link two subnets together via a Windows-based PC. Has
anyone
>done this? If so, please advise, suggestions of the form "Dump Windows
>and install Linux, then..." will NOT be appreciated! :)

It depends on how the subnets are linked.  NT supports forwarding,
"routing" (as in using a routing protocol) is available from Microsoft.
Win9x does NOT support forwarding of packets, but you can get a "service"
like the Macafee <sp> firewall tool(s) that forwards packets, you certainly
don't want to do high traffic volumes with such a config as it a 
user-space
hack.  NT (and Win9x although it's pretty pointless) has a "route" 
command
just like UNIX.

>We're doing this to compare how each system supports this kind of
>activity. In one way, Linux has already "won" becasue I know how to do
>this in Linux, and he can't seem to find out how to do this in Windows!

Basically, in this regard, NT and Linux are that same, and do the same 
things.  AFAIK NT doesn't have an equivalent to ipchains so you'll have 
less control over "what" gets forwarded.