wingate 5.2.3 on winxp pro with 2NICs problem!

May 29 04 12:44 am

recently i've tried to installed it to a p4 2.8ghz machine with 2NICs and winxp pro 1a with all the patches installed.

but once i've started the computers, it will restart itself or just hang there after couple of minutes...

if i stop the wingate engine, it works fine...

and i've tried out winroute pro on the same machine, it works fine too..

guys, i don't want to switch to other proxy server... pls help me asap.

thank you.

May 29 04 12:48 am

Hi,

Have you tried version6 beta?

May 29 04 12:52 am

does it going to work for my situation?

i'm downloading it now.

May 29 04 12:58 am

Let me know how it goes. Did you see the actual blue screen or the machine just restarted with no information whatsoever? Also, what other firewalls do you have installed?

May 29 04 1:07 am

the machine just restart itself without any prior notice...

there's no other firewall installed on this machine...and it actually has mail server software(MDaemon installed)...

right now i'm using wingate 6 beta.... already passed 8mins.... still looking good...

but the external iinterface looks like not working... it should be using my fixed ip... but what when i goto whatismyip.com, it doesn't show my real fixed ip.

May 29 04 1:10 am

it's using my other router as gateway... why? i didn't set any thing on my winxp pro?

May 29 04 1:10 am

What IP address does it show? It can be your ISP redirecting your HTTP connection.

May 29 04 1:15 am

check your default gateway

May 29 04 1:27 am

previously i left it blank for my internal interface card... now i just point it to itself...

probably i should hv to turn off the auto dial on my isdn router.

May 29 04 1:32 am

could it be the bug for existing version(5.2.3)??? if yes, some other users should have encountered this problem too...

but i hvn't seen anyone discussing about this... or probably i've missed it somewhere..

May 29 04 12:49 pm

it still hang last nite...

after restarted it just now, it still restart itself after less than 2mins...

May 29 04 12:52 pm

btw, this machine is p4 with hyperthreading. not sure whether it will have any side effect on wingate or not.

i've 1Gb of Ram for this machine.

May 29 04 4:53 pm

We need to run additional tests - I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

May 29 04 5:49 pm

Hi,

Can you disable reboot after crash so you can actually see where the error occured? It is enabled in Control Panel/System/Advanced/Recovery.

May 29 04 7:18 pm

i've already disabled it.

my setup is something like this:
for NIC#1, it only has static ip with subnet mask (199.1.1.x/24) which and i didn't put in any other info like gateway, and dns.

for NIC#2, which is my external interface to internet, i've put in the fixed ip as well as the gateway and dns.

the strange thing is, when i plug my existing isdn router into the network, this machine will automatically add this router into gateway for the NIC#1.. very odd!

could it be something wrong with my network card settings?

May 31 04 8:44 pm

could it be the irq conflict?

from those two NICs, i can see those two NICs have no conflict with other devices...

but when i use system information to look thru it, it has the same irq with usb controller...

irq 19 : Intel(r) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D7 - status ok
irq 19 : Dlink DFE-538TX 10/100 Adapter #3 status ok too...

May 31 04 8:50 pm

No, should be OK. You have not seen this type of crash/reboot before you installed Wingate, have you?

May 31 04 10:25 pm

no... it works fine without wingate.

actually, before installing wingate, i tried to use winroute, but still decide to support wingate.

Jun 01 04 12:01 am

Ok, there is something about your setup: what network cards do you have on your machine?

Jun 01 04 12:14 am

right now both using Dlink DFE-538 TX 10/100

previously i used Dlink DFE-528 and 3Com 3c509b

Jun 12 04 5:09 am

i'm still having the bsod problem or the system just hang there....

another issue is, i seems cannot log into gatekeeper after i've key in the password.... the gatekeeper just hang there...

when the system hang or bsod, sometimes it will prompted BAD_pools or something related to the bad device drivers...

but i've the latest NIC drivers installed and it works fine without running wingate.

could it be firewall issue as well?