Configuring Windows Server to Route Satellite Internet

[r042wal]

I am looking for a solution to share a LincSat satellite connection with 19
computers on a peer-to-peer network. Presently, we have WinGate 5.2.2
installed, but the WinGate firewall blocks the ports required for Symantec
Corporate AntiVirus server 8.1 from communicating with the Symantec clients.
Wingate will not allow you to open up a non-standard port to the whle
network, it will only let you map a port.

I thought about putting the antivirus server on a stand-alone box but it
seems the WinGate clients influence even local traffic. All the computers
on the network have an IBM client for connecting to an AS/400. When the
WinGate Client is enabled, the IBM client will not connect.

The satellite transmitter/receiver is USB. I would like to know if I set up
a Windows 2000 or 2003 server with RRAS and NAT if I could share this
connection out over the network. The external interface would be the USB
port and I think the LinkSat software makes this port appear as a network
interface. WinGate certainly detects it as a network interface.

If this is possible, could someone guide me with setting this up? I am
going to borrow a USB ADSL router from work and set up a test platform at
home first.

TIA

 

[Phillip Windell]

The satellite transmitter/receiver is USB. I would like to know if I set up
a Windows 2000 or 2003 server with RRAS and NAT if I could share this
connection out over the network. The external interface would be the USB
port and I think the LinkSat software makes this port appear as a network
interface. WinGate certainly detects it as a network interface.

As long as RRAS recognizes the USB interface as a LAN (Routable)
interface it should work. I don't have any "step bystep" walk through
to give you, you would just setup NAT in RRAS the normal way. I
cannot help with Wingate itself, but I suspect it would have to be
removed from the server or it likey would get in the way.