I personally run it inside of the network and then out to the router. Essentially I have 1 private networking inside of another. I don't know if there is an option for passing all ports through. I mainly use it to separate our production network from our corporate network and also of course to cache the updates.
Yes it does unless you want to get creative with your setup. Basically you just need to have all computers you want to update on the network use the ipcop machine as their gateway.
Here is the solution to your problem as long as you have a spare PC laying around with a couple of nics. Install IPCop http://ipcop.org/ Install 2 plugins off of http://www.advproxy.net/ Install advanced proxy and Update Accelerator
After you have this setup, setup a copy of Windows XP manually (from CD) and do all of the updates with Windows Update/Microsoft Update. Update Accelerator caches all of the updates locally and they seamlessly download from the local server when you use windows update. I use this and it has been a life saver for our office. We vary from running updates from between 10 and 500 PC's that may need some updates everyday.
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I personally run it inside of the network and then out to the router. Essentially I have 1 private networking inside of another. I don't know if there is an option for passing all ports through. I mainly use it to separate our production network from our corporate network and also of course to cache the updates.
Yes it does unless you want to get creative with your setup. Basically you just need to have all computers you want to update on the network use the ipcop machine as their gateway.
Here is the solution to your problem as long as you have a spare PC laying around with a couple of nics.
Install IPCop http://ipcop.org/
Install 2 plugins off of http://www.advproxy.net/
Install advanced proxy and Update Accelerator
After you have this setup, setup a copy of Windows XP manually (from CD) and do all of the updates with Windows Update/Microsoft Update. Update Accelerator caches all of the updates locally and they seamlessly download from the local server when you use windows update. I use this and it has been a life saver for our office. We vary from running updates from between 10 and 500 PC's that may need some updates everyday.