Vista, Routing and NAT. Is that Possible?

By | November 22, 2008

today, i found something interesting in Vista Networking. when i used Windows XP Professional i found networking tools called netsh with a lot of functional to configure WinXP as a router (you can make your winbox as tough as *nix). Vista come with its netsh tools but limited to firewall & security, it hasn’t routing facility, but with some trick you’ll get routing capability like on WinXP.
this is the info for the netsh command
Vista
C:\Users\User>netsh show helper
Helper GUID DLL Filename Command
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{02BC1F81-D927-4EC5-8CBC-8DD65E3E38E8} AUTHFWCFG.DLL advfirewall
{FB10CBCA-5430-46CE-B732-079B4E23BE24} AUTHFWCFG.DLL consec
{35342B49-83B4-4FCC-A90D-278533D5BEA2} AUTHFWCFG.DLL firewall
{4D0FEFCB-8C3E-4CDE-B39B-325933727297} AUTHFWCFG.DLL monitor
{00770721-44EA-11D5-93BA-00B0D022DD1F} HNETMON.DLL bridge
{6DC31EC5-3583-4901-9E28-37C28113656A} DHCPCMONITOR.DLL dhcpclient
{8B3A0D7F-1F30-4402-B753-C4B2C7607C97} FWCFG.DLL firewall
{44F3288B-DBFF-4B31-A86E-633F50D706B3} NSHHTTP.DLL http
{0705ECA1-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IFMON.DLL interface
{1C151866-F35B-4780-8CD2-E1924E9F03E1} NETIOHLP.DLL 6to4
{725588AC-7A11-4220-A121-C92C915E8B73} NETIOHLP.DLL ipv4
{500F32FD-7064-476B-8FD6-2171EA46428F} NETIOHLP.DLL ipv6
{90E1CBE1-01D9-4174-BB4D-EB97F3F6150D} NETIOHLP.DLL 6to4
{90E1CBE1-01D9-4174-BB4D-EB97F3F6150D} NETIOHLP.DLL isatap
{1C151866-F35B-4780-8CD2-E1924E9F03E1} NETIOHLP.DLL isatap
{1C151866-F35B-4780-8CD2-E1924E9F03E1} NETIOHLP.DLL portproxy
{78197B47-2BEF-49CA-ACEB-D8816371BAA8} NETIOHLP.DLL tcp
{1C151866-F35B-4780-8CD2-E1924E9F03E1} NETIOHLP.DLL teredo
{F7E0BC27-BA6E-4145-A123-012F1922F3F1} NSHIPSEC.DLL ipsec
{F7E0BC29-BA6E-4145-A123-012F1922F3F1} NSHIPSEC.DLL dynamic
{F7E0BC28-BA6E-4145-A123-012F1922F3F1} NSHIPSEC.DLL static
{1D8240C7-48B9-47CC-9E40-4F7A0A390E71} DOT3CFG.DLL lan
{00B399EA-447F-4B19-8393-F9D71D7760F9} NAPMONTR.DLL nap
{3F8A1180-FF5D-4B5B-934C-D08DFFBC9CBC} NAPMONTR.DLL client
{B123BAAA-79E9-49FD-AB2C-E87C56CE4CFF} NAPMONTR.DLL hra
{931852E2-597D-40B9-B927-55FFC81A6104} NETIOHLP.DLL netio
{B7BE4347-E851-4EEC-BC65-B0C0E87B86E3} P2PNETSH.DLL p2p
{9E0D63D7-4644-476B-9DAC-D62F96E08376} P2PNETSH.DLL collab
{6ED05238-F6A3-F801-967A-5CAD6F6CAC56} P2PNETSH.DLL contact
{E35A9D1F-61E8-4CF5-A46C-0F715A9303B8} P2PNETSH.DLL group
{9AA625FC-7E31-4679-B5B5-DFC67A3510AB} P2PNETSH.DLL database
{FBFC037E-D455-4B8D-80A5-B379002DBCAD} P2PNETSH.DLL idmgr
{9E0D63D6-4644-476B-9DAC-D64F96E01376} P2PNETSH.DLL pnrp
{1DD4935A-E587-4D16-AE27-14E40385AB12} P2PNETSH.DLL cloud
{AD1D76C9-434B-48E0-9D2C-31FA93D9635A} P2PNETSH.DLL diagnostics
{6EC05238-F6A3-4801-967A-5C9D6F6CAC50} P2PNETSH.DLL peer
{0705ECA2-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} RASMONTR.DLL ras
{42E3CC21-098C-11D3-8C4D-00104BCA495B} RASMONTR.DLL aaaa
{90FE6CFC-B6A2-463B-AA12-25E615EC3C66} RASMONTR.DLL diagnostics
{13D12A78-D0FB-11D2-9B76-00104BCA495B} RASMONTR.DLL ip
{36B3EF76-94C1-460F-BD6F-DF0178D90EAC} RASMONTR.DLL ipv6
{592852F7-5F6F-470B-9097-C5D33B612975} RPCNSH.DLL rpc
{C07E293F-9531-4426-8E5C-D7EBBA50F693} RPCNSH.DLL filter
{0BFDC146-56A3-4311-A7D5-7D9953F8326E} WHHELPER.DLL winhttp
{B2C0EEF4-CCE5-4F55-934E-ABF60F3DCF56} WSHELPER.DLL winsock
{D424E730-1DB7-4287-8C9B-0774F5AD0576} WLANCFG.DLL wlan
2003
{65EC23C0-D1B9-11D2-89E4-006008B0E5B9} IPMONTR.DLL routing
{0705ECA0-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPMONTR.DLL ip
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL autodhcp
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL dnsproxy
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL igmp
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL nat
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL ospf
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL relay
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL rip
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL routerdiscovery
xp
{65EC23C0-D1B9-11D2-89E4-006008B0E5B9} IPMONTR.DLL routing
{0705ECA0-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPMONTR.DLL ip
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL autodhcp
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL dnsproxy
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL igmp
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL nat
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL ospf
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL relay
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL rip
{0705ECA3-7AAC-11D2-89DC-006008B0E5B9} IPPROMON.DLL routerdisco
from above, we found that routing capability has removed in vista, but we can take it back, here the tricks :
I got IPMONTR.DLL IPPROMON.DLL from 2003 , it is ok if you got these files from XP.
copy to Vista WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
and run
netsh add helper ipmontr.dll
netsh add helper ippromon.dll
now you can configure Vista routing and remote access.
netsh>routing ip nat
netsh routing ip nat>add interface “Nvidia” full
netsh routing ip nat>add interface “SMC” private
netsh>interf ipv4
netsh interface ipv4>set interface “8″ forwarding=enable
netsh interface ipv4>set interface “10″ forwarding=enable
8 and 10 are interface id of Nvidia and SMC.
You can get interface id by
netsh>interface ipv4 show interfa
now you can do everything with this routing capability, u can look at windows XP netsh help documentation..
best regards,
dani_wafaul_falah
http://wafa.web.id

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