Unidentified network

[bztips]

I'm trying to install Wingate on a new Windows 2008 Server R2 machine. We're using the latest version of Wingate (7.2.7.x). It currently works fine on our old XP machine.

I've configured the NICs exactly the same on both machines, and set up Wingate exactly the same. But no one on our internal network (other than the Win2008 server machine itself) can connect -- "No internet connection".

The one NIC connected to the internet and has static IP configuration -- works fine.
The NIC for our internal network also has static IP (192.168.0.1 with mask 255.255.255.0, and no gateway specified). Wingate is set up with fully automatic DHCP control.

Windows Firewall is turned off completely.

In the Windows Network and Sharing Center, the external NIC shows up fine with internet access as a public network.
For the internal NIC, it shows "Unidentified network" and I've configured Windows so that it treats it as a private network.

Still no one on the internal network can get internet access.

Any ideas on things to check?

As I said before, the identical setup works fine on our old XP server.

Thx.

[adrien]

Hi

can clients on the LAN even ping the LAN interface in WinGate?

I've had mixed results with the windows firewall on win7 / 2k8, and from what I can tell, it's often not really off even if disabled. You may need to add firewall rules to allow WinGate.exe to make and accept connections.

You should be able to see in DHCP service logs if it is receiving requests as well, just enable debug logging for the DHCP service (and probably best also to get it to log to its own file).

Regards

Adrien

[bztips]

Thanks for the advice, I will try to check those things.

Would it also make sense to maybe remove Wingate's DHCP service, and then reinstall it? As I recall, I didn't turn off the Windows firewall until after I had initially installed Wingate's DHCP, so maybe Windows did something weird when I turned off the firewall.

[adrien]

Hi

re-adding the DHCP service probably won't do much, except if you think there were bad DHCP options / leases set up, since those should be reset.

Installing services in WinGate doesn't affect the Windows firewall.

Did you see any evidence of requests being received by WinGate in the DHCP logs?

Regards

Adrien