network and wingate configurations

[tarazan]

Hello,

Well i actually need the last reply from Pascal since i didnt read it. I was saying that even though i changed my internal NIC IP to a private IP, wingate is detecting it as external and i wanted to know why and according to which criteria does it classify an NIC to internal or external.

Thanks.

[genie]

When Wingate detects an adapter's usage it follows the certain guidelines which are not hardlined - there is no law which says the all internal adapters should be set this way. Wingate tries to detect the most obvious features of adapters, such as an IP address being in a private range and such. However, in many cases Wingate is left in doubts about the nature of the adapter and to be on the safe side it marks it as an external one (the external adapters security table is the most restrictive one).

[Pascal]

So, simply set a private IP on your adapter? Or override it. if it is not detected properly - that is why the feature is there so people can override it. Personally, I prefer using a private IP range on a private network, following the basic guidelines, etc. - although, like Genie said - there is no law which says all adapters should be set this way.

What do you have the ip-address ranges set to currently? In fact, can you email the results of an "ipconfig /all" to me? Then I'll be able to tell you exactly why the adapter is detected as 'external'.