Travis Bragg

Travis Capehart

Beau Webb

Manual for Configuring Routing and Remote Access in Windows 2000

First we want to go under the Start Menu and select Programs, Administrative Tools, then choose Routing and Remote Access.

Once the window has opened, you will right click on the name of your computer (local machine) and choose to Configure and Enable Routing and Remote Access.

The Routing and Remote Access Server Setup Wizard will then appear.

Choose next to begin the setup.

At this point we have done two seperate things: we can either set up an Internet Connection Server or a Network Router.

First, we will go over setting up the Network Router. Simply chose the Network Router option and choose next.

Now, we will need to verify that all the protocols required for the server are in the list as pictured below.

Once they are all added, choose next to continue. On the next screen you are wanting to select No to not use demand-dial connections to access remote networks. You can always set up demand-dial connections after the wizard finishes.

The Routing and Remote Access Server Setup Wizard has complete. Select Finish to complete it.

Now we want to go and setup a static route so that we can communicate with another network. We first expand IP Routing. Now we want to right click Static Routes and select New Static Route.

Choose the appropriate interface which we will be configuring. Now we will want to put the Destination Address in the box. This should be the IP Address connecting your network with the other network. Then choose the network mask which we'll be using and finally the gateway which it will be going through.

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An alternate way of doing all of that would be to right click on General under IP Routing. You can then choose to add a new protocol. Then select RIP Version 2 for Internet Protocol. As long as each of the computers connected have this installed, it will basically do the last step automatically. This is good for smaller networks such as ours. For larger networks, a protocol like IGMP would be more sufficient.

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This was one way of setting up the Routing and Remote Acess Server. Another alternative would be to chose Internet Connection Server like below.

You will then select a setup method based on the complexity of your network. We're wanting to choose NAT (Network Address Translation) routing protocol.

Now, we want to choose the appropriate Internet Connection Interface that will be in use. In this case, it is Local Area Connection 2.

The wizard has finished with the setup. If you would like help with NAT when the wizard completes then just put a check in that box. Hit finish to complete the installation.

Now that NAT is installed, we can start configuring more things to make it more complete. We can do this by expanding the IP Routing category and right clicking on Network Address Translation (NAT). Then choose properties.

There are several different things that we could modify in this area. But for our case, we simply kept that configuration as is.