Routing And Remote Access

Routing and Remote Access is essentially a software router that can be configured to connect separate network segments.

What is Routing?????

Routing is a process of transferring data accros an interconnected network from one LAN to another.

In IP networks, routing is performed according to IP routing tables. All IP host use routing table to forward IP traffic.

Routing and Remote Access services can be configured for LAN to LAN, LAN to WAN, VPN & NAT routing through IP networks.

Hardware routers include many built-in ports, each of which typically connects to a distinct network segment. The hardware router can route traffic from any one port to another. For Routing And Remote Access, however, the number of network segments among which traffic can be routed is limited by the number of network interfaces installed on the Windows Server 2003 computer running the service. For example, if you have configured your Windows Server 2003 computer with two network cards and a modem, the Routing And Remote Access service can route traffic among three networks.

For an example of a Windows Server 2003 computer running the Routing And Remote Access service and configured with four network adapters. In this scenario, the Routing And Remote Access service is routing IP traffic among four LANs.

 

Windows 2003 server  configured with four NIC card:

 

Enabling Routing And Remote Access

The Routing And Remote Access service is installed by Windows Server 2003 Setup in a disabled state. You can enable and configure the service by running the Routing And Remote Access Server Setup Wizard. Note that if the server on which you want to configure the Routing And Remote Access service is a member server of an Active Directory domain.