Use a soft route to connect a LAN to the Internet

There are many ways to connect a LAN to the Internet, but considering the difficulty of price, management, and maintenance, I think it is a good way to use the soft routing function built into Windows 2000 Server in a small LAN. Specific implementation process:

First, log on to the Internet sharing server as the Administrator and start route settings. Open "Start/Program/management tool/route and remote access ". Go to the "Routing and Remote Access" console. 1. Right-click the computer name and select "configure and enable Routing and Remote Access ".

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Then go to the Configuration Wizard Page and click [next]. In public settings, select "Internet connection server ".

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The Wizard will prompt you whether to use a simple ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) or a more powerful NAT Routing Server. Needless to say, we need to select "vro with Network Address Translation (nat) routing protocol", 2.

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Then the server will let us set the interface to connect to the Internet. If you are using a leased line connection method, select the NIC that is bound with the leased line IP address (provided by the ISP) (in this example, select the NIC that is identified as Wai. If you are using a certain dialing method, select "Create a new request for dialing Internet connection" and follow the new Wizard to complete the setting.

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Then, the wizard will prompt you to set the DNS address resolution. To access the Internet URL correctly, you can use the DNS on the Internet. Click [next] to complete the settings.

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After completing the settings, you can use "Network Address Translation (NAT)" in the console to verify, 4, and 5. We can clearly see that the internal connection (Nai) and external connection (Wai) interfaces have been defined, and check the properties to confirm whether the correct interfaces are set.

After the server is configured, you need to set the clients in the LAN. The setting method is also simple. You can set both the gateway and DNS to point to this Internet Shared Server.

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