ENABLING IP ROUTING IN WINXP

RICHIEC544 · November 2nd, 2003, 11:06 PM

AFTER SETTING UP MY ROUTER AND SOLVING MANY OTHER PROBS THAT I HAD I NEED HELP IN TURNING ON IP ROUTING IN WINXP
WHEN I RUN IPCONFIG /ALL IT SAYS THAT IT IS NOT ENABLED AND THAT WILL BE MY LAST PROBLEM TO FIX
I AM RUNNING WINXPPRO AND I HAVE JUST GONE FROM A DIRECT ADSL CONNECTION TO A WIRED CONNECTION TO A LINKSYS ROUTER WHICH IS ALSO HAS WIRELESS AND HAVE AN ME MACHINE WITH A WIRELESS CONNETION ON IT WITH NO PROBLEM THE TWO ARE USING THE INTERNET THROUGH THE ROUTER NOT THROUGH THE XP MACHINE

THANKS IN ADVANCE
RICH

VHockey86 · November 2nd, 2003, 11:30 PM

well first of all, lay off the caps...

Second of all, when you say "HAVE AN ME MACHINE WITH A WIRELESS CONNETION ON IT WITH NO PROBLEM THE TWO ARE USING THE INTERNET THROUGH THE ROUTER NOT THROUGH THE XP MACHINE" I cant quite understand what u mean

So you have

DSL Modem --> Linksys router --> Branches off seperately to PC 1 and PC 2?

Maybe im extremely ignorant but by IP routing in winXP do you mean ICS? (internet connection sharing)

and oh ya, welcome to techimo

excuzzzeme · November 3rd, 2003, 06:45 PM

Did you happen to check to see if you had any protocols bound to your NIC?

RICHIEC544 · November 3rd, 2003, 10:27 PM

yes it is bound to the nic

RICHIEC544 · November 3rd, 2003, 10:31 PM

yes vhockey you are correct in the description but i dont think it has anything to do with ics because when i hooked up my other xpmachine to the router which has a fresh in stall of windows and nothing else with the 3 com nic and i did ipconfig /all it said that ip routing was enabled

thanks for the replies

meese · November 3rd, 2003, 10:58 PM

Routing does not need to be "On" for the pc to work with a router. By default on any W2K or XP machine when you do an ipconfig /all, IP routing will be set to NO. The way it turns on is if you make the pc a VPN server or something, then since it is acting as a router of sorts, this option will now be enabled.

What I suggest you do is post an ipconfig /all from your machines. Then we can get you going.

DrDave1958 · November 3rd, 2003, 11:00 PM

Maybe I'm over simplifying.....

LAN enabled?

DHCP enabled?

-Dave-

vass0922 · November 3rd, 2003, 11:02 PM

Out of curiosity, why do you think it SHOULD be set to yes?

Agreed with meese, unless your machine is working as a router it has no need of being turned on.

Your machine is not doing the routing between networks. The router is.
Your machine talks only to another box on the same network.

meese · November 3rd, 2003, 11:21 PM

I think you need to figure out the correct terminology for your question.

RICHIEC544 · November 3rd, 2003, 11:27 PM

let me just say that this forum is the best and so are you guys i have never had such quick responses from a forum before
i just want to be able to host some games on ubi.com and dont want any problems before i do that i just thougth that the ip routing being disabled would give me a problem i do remember that i used the freshly install xp machine ( my second one not being used right now ) was used once for a direct cable connection to a me laptop i was trying to get some files off of maybe its enabled because of that
thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!