All the PC's on my network are running Windows 7. They connect to the internet using a hardware router connected to a cable modem. I would like to set one computer up to be a gateway for an anonymizer/US IP address VPN service. So... most of my PC's would be set with gateway 192.168.0.1 - the IP of my hardware router. Any PC that would use the VPN service would use a gateway of 192.168.0.2 - the IP of the PC with the VPN software installed. What is this type of setup called? How difficult is it to set up? If possible, I'd like to avoid having ALL my traffic on the VPN PC go through the VPN. Client software on this PC should still use the normal cable modem connection, unless specificially set to use the 192.168.0.2 gateway. Is this possible? It seems relatively simple, IF you know what to configure. Thanks!

Not sure if there is a name for this setup, but as long as you have control of the default gateway on each of the windows machines (either through DHCP or a static configuration) it is not difficult to set up the first half of what you are trying to do. If you have specific target networks/subnets that you want to access via the VPN/anonomizer a simple routing table "route add ..." could be set up on each machine to route traffic destined for subnets on the VPN, with the remaining going to the default gateway of your router (or vice versa). These routes can be set up on the VPN machine as well. It is not possible to have one piece of client software use one route to a given destination while another simultaneously uses a different route when connecting from the same machine. That's not how networking works. Sorry. Dan

Better is to get a gateway box and let it do the work. A manual job for Linux is tricky without the experience to get it up and running. Windows server is not much easier to setup either. I use Linksys myself which is rack solid in my experince. My MVP is for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IT, and I am getting increasingly good with Visual Studio. Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews

Not sure if there is a name for this setup, but as long as you have control of the default gateway on each of the windows machines (either through DHCP or a static configuration) it is not difficult to set up the first half of what you are trying to do. If you have specific target networks/subnets that you want to access via the VPN/anonomizer a simple routing table "route add ..." could be set up on each machine to route traffic destined for subnets on the VPN, with the remaining going to the default gateway of your router (or vice versa). These routes can be set up on the VPN machine as well. It is not possible to have one piece of client software use one route to a given destination while another simultaneously uses a different route when connecting from the same machine. That's not how networking works. Sorry. Dan