WinRoute Pro is the ultimate Internet Router - Firewall software making it virtually effortless to set all of the computers in your network up to share a single Internet connection! Connect through a dial-up line, DSL, Cable, ISDN, LAN, T1, Radio and DirecPC. It's that easy!
Remote Administration
WinRoute Administrator provides the configuration and settings on the WinRoute Engine. WinRoute Administrator is a separate application (wradmin.exe) that may be run from any computer with a connection to the WinRoute Engine computer. Access to the Engine is secured by strong encryption and a password.
Logging
WinRoute Pro provides an administrator with ultimate control over the traffic flowing through the host computer it is running on. The Administrator may benefit from analyzing the flow of TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP packets, DNS requests, driver information and more. All operations have a Time Stamp.
NAT IP Router
WinRoute includes the (best) implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT) technology available today. It is designed to provide users with the ultimate in routing capability and network protection. The NAT driver written exclusively for WinRoute offers a security solution comparable to more expensive products at substantially less cost.
Advanced NAT Routing
Advanced NAT allows the option to modify the source IP address of outgoing packets based on various criteria. This ensures easy integration of LANs behind WinRoute into the corporate WAN environment with different segments, demilitarized zones, virtual private networks etc.
Hosting Servers behind WinRoute
WinRoute's NAT, when not excluding the host, will prevent all unrequested traffic from entering your entire network, including the computer that WinRoute is installed on. Port Mapping/Forwarding allows users to decide how they want to divert IP packets passing through a NAT'd interface. With WinRoute, users can set packets coming to a specific port to be passed to a specific internal computer. This allows them to run a web server, mail server, FTP server, VPN server or virtually any other type of server securely behind the firewall.
Firewall Security
WinRoute gives users a comparable level of firewall capability found in far more expensive solutions through a combination of its NAT architecture and its ability to operate on a low level. This allows WinRoute to capture both incoming and outgoing packets, which makes it unbreakable. Anti-spoofing is an add-on to WinRoute's packet filtering, for further protection of the LAN against attacks where the intruder falsifies source IP addresses.
Simple Network Configuration
The DHCP server and DNS forwarder included in WinRoute greatly simplify the task of network administration, requiring minimal effort and no client configuration.
Mail Server
WinRoute's mail server, complete with SMTP relay and POP3 server, allows virtually unlimited aliases and automatic mail sorting. It is an ideal solution for small to medium sized businesses that host their own domain and would like to have full control of each user's mailbox. Users can have multiple addresses and receive mail from various accounts. Authentication and anti-spam ensure that your mail server cannot be abused by outside sources.
HTTP Cache
WinRoute's architecture includes an innovative Cache engine. Unlike proxy servers with caching functionality, WinRoute's cache stores passing data in one file of pre-defined length instead of using a single file for each object. This significantly saves the disc space occupied by the cache, especially in FAT16 (most of Windows95) environments.