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I'm hoping to use WinGate as follows...Is this possible?

Nov 19 04 10:21 am

Hi, I'm new to WinGate and I'm trying to figure out if it will do what I need it to do. Here goes: I need to be able to get multiple users using PCAnywhere go through WinGate and be able to connect to multiple hosts. The users are remote employees and they will pass through my firewall, connect to WinGate, go back out my firewall and out to our customer sites. Is this possible? The whole point here is to authenticate and NAT everyone to the same address before they can get to the customer site.

If it sounds doable, how do I make WinGate aware of the destination (customer) addresses and how will my users select one of them from WinGate? Is there a way to do this dynamically during authentication? Also, will I be better off with one NIC or two on the WinGate box.

Sorry for asking so many questions. Hope I'm not dreaming here. Thanks.

Nov 19 04 10:47 am

Well, you can do that with TCP mapping. You can simply assign assumed users by IPs and allow only those users through these mappings.

Nov 19 04 10:55 am

Thanks, but are you referring to port mapping where I map a unique incoming port to every destination address? I'm hoping to find a way to avoid this. I've seen some evidence that some proxy servers have ways to allow users to come in on a single port but be able to select the destination dynamically (presumably during or right after authentication).
If you are not referring to port mapping, how will the users select their destination once they reach WinGate? TIA.

Nov 19 04 10:56 am

It is possible only if the proxy can interpret the protocol properly. Wingate does not have PCAnywhere proxy and therefore TCPMapping is pretty much the only way to do it.
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