In June, Microsoft launched a new version of its Multi-Protocol Routing (MPR), Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), formerly code-named Steelhead. Compared with the earlier version of MPR, a built-in service in Windows NT Server 4.0, RRAS has a rich set of routing and internetworking features that enable NT servers to route data over IP and IPX LANs and WANs. Some new MPR features in RRAS are Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 2.0 for IP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), IP and IPX packet filtering, and a dial-up router. In "Steelhead Swims into the Mainstream,", Mark Minasi describes RRAS's features.

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