Two Internet gateways?

[allany]

Hi,
Does WinGate support 2 internet gateways?

I have 3 PCs and 2 different internet connections, let's assume the following:

One PC will be setup to act as router(Internet gateway) PC1.

The other 2 PC's will be clients: PC2 , PC3.

2 internet connections will be shared on PC1, first internet connection will be internetA, the second will be internetB.

My question is: how can i set up PC1(the router) to share 2 internet connections(internetA , internetB) , so that PC2 will use only internetA and PC3 will use only internetB. (i mean every client PC will use differnet internet connection sharing on the router PC1).

Maybe it sounds littel complicated, but any help will be welcomed:)

(i have two different ISPs)

[Hobbyist]

Hi.. I'm going to piggy back my question here because I have a similar set up and somewhat related question.

I too have set up one machine to act as a firewall router and have several machines behind it (a web server, an FTP server, a couple of works stations, and a file/printer/fax/scanner server). My main reason for using wingate (hopefully) will be to provide a fail-over for my dialup connection. One of the main things I want with Wingate is to provide the NAT "firewall" capability I get with a router while I'm connecting over my dial-up adapter (till now I've needed to install a software firewall on each machine just to handle the times I've fallen back to dial-up where I'm no longer protected by a NAT'ing router). I have absolutly no use for trying to limit the available protocols on my LAN machines and have no use for user authentication what so ever.

Here's my question at the moment... I have NNTP, POP3 and SMTP servers available from my dialup ISP. I almost never need to access the POP3 or SMTP but the newsfeed carries a couple of groups that my cable-ethenet ISP doesn't provide. I use newsbin and Agent to access usenet so I can enter multiple newsfeed URLs but how do I get wingate to recognize that I need to be using my dialup adapter in order to access my dialup ISPs newsfeed even when my cable-ethernet connection is working fine. I mention the POP and SMTP services because these as well are not accessable when I am connecting from a "foreign" ISP. There's a related problem that when my ethernet connection is down I don't want to try using the dialup isp to try and access nntp, pop, or smtp provided by that ISP because they have similar rules about needing to use the "webmail", etc interface if I'm coming in on another ISP.

Just another quick "as long as we're at it" ... I have 2 dymanic IPs available from my cable-ethernet provider. At the moment I'm using a switch after the modem and I;ve got the Wingate WAN nic pulling 1 IP thrrough the switch and a router pulling the other IP. I'd like to have Wingate pull both IPs and set up 2 LAN subnets. I'm thinking this requires 4 NICs in the Wingate machine - no?. (ie modem to switch, then 2 lines - one to each of 2 Winngate WAN NICs, then 2 Wingate LAN NIC each to it's own LAN side switch)... any suggestions there? I'm content to have the dialup failover only serve 1 subnet (and have the other go dead when the cable-ethernet connection fails) but the idea of having special throttling options kick in when I'm on dialup is interesting..

Thanks (and sorry allany if I seem to be hijacking you thread)

[Nev]

Hi,

Yes I have done this with success in relation to the WWW Proxy Service.

Using proxies what I did was to point the standard Port 8080 proxy at one connection using the 'Gateway' feature and adding the desired connection via NIC1 ~ Internet A.

Cloning this proxy [right click a service and select clone, rename it say WWW Proxy II], set it's port to be say 8081 and point the gateway at NIC2 ~ Internet B.

On Client A set it to use the Gateway and DNS of Wingate and Port 8080 for the WWW traffic in Mozilla / IE for example.

On Client B set it to use the Gateway and DNS of Wingate and Port 8081 for the WWW traffic in Mozilla / IE for example.

This might get you started and I'd be interested to know if it works as it is a while since I worked on similar, so relying on memory.

Sorry can't help for POP3 etc, but is should be possible.