Microsoft would not include it in the base product because they have
another product they sell which does this. The first product was MS
Proxy server, an appalling, so called firewall. It has now been
replaced with ISA server. It is better, but not great.
Both products do port forwarding and I
Use something like wingate as a proxy/port forwarder.
Turn off XP's firewall.
Rgds,
Darryl
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Background: In order to obtain a 2 way Satellite connection I need to
use a windows OS because the application that performs the connection
and data transmission will only run on a windows OS such as XP Pro.
Another case where software developers have forced the use of a MS OS.
Until now my