Windows Firewall/ICS and Wingate

[SuperJ]

Hi,

The wingate installation(v5.x and 6.x) have always ask to disable the windows firewall before installing. As a matter of fact v5 would not let you install it on Windows 2000 or XP unless the firewall service is stopped and disabled.

Questions:
1) Is it absolute necessary to disable the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing service to install Wingate 6.x?
I've noticed that Wingate 6 works even if you ignore the message and install it with the firewall service enable. Is there a drawback to that?

2) Is it enough to let the service run and simply turn off the firewall for each NIC?

3) Did you know that there are other features in Windows XP which will not work if you disable the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection service(i have no idea why Microsoft has it that way) ? For example, network places will not work in a workgroup, though network paths(\\pc1\share) will work.

Regards,
supaJ

[adrien]

Hi

alg.exe messes with gateway selection (for some daft reason it changes source port numbers for local outbound traffic), and can break transparent proxy for the same reason.

Other than that, everything else should still work if you have windows firewall enabled.

Adrien