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

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>>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.
All very nice, but not specific. He seems to have some problem with 
addressing two ethernet cards, perhaps these are conflicts in his IP 
addressing scheme.

I guess I'm looking for more specific guidance; we know the capabilities 
are there, he has not been able to find them, and I have not had the time 
to help out by looking.

>>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.
This is not an issue at the moment, we simply want to route everything.



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