[ale] Weird question

[Chris Ricker]

On  7 May, Vernard Martin wrote:
> A friend of mine was listening to me rave about ip masquerading under Linux and
> how I can get all my machines on my subnet to have access over that one line
> using the linux box as a router of sorts. He is primarily a WinNT person and
> wanted to know if suck a beast existed for WinNT. I realized that I didn't know
> so I'm asking the group. If it doesn't exist then he's willing to turn a 486
> DX2-66 machine into a linux machine so that he can get this functionality. I
> figured I should at least be honest and try to see if WinNT can do this before
> I try to convert him over to Linux. After all, if it can't then he's an easy
> convert :-)

I think you have to use RRAS ("Routing and Remote Access Services" or
some stupid mouthful like that), what used to be called Steelhead.  It
requires NT Server 4.0.  I've used it before to do masquerading, and it
actually does work, surprisingly enough ;-).  From what I recall, it
doesn't have all the features of masquerading under Linux (no
equivalent of ip_masq_raudio, for example), though it's been too long
for me to be definite about that.

There are also third-party solutions of varying qualities, some of
which don't even require NT server if your friend doesn't have it and
doesn't know how to convert workstation into server.  You'll probably
have better luck in the git.whatever.nt newsgroup, though.  I'm sure
some kids on ResNet have explored all possible options for you
already....

later,
chris