How to set wingate standard up

[mrpifloyd]

I am in a 2000 server environment with 6 users. the proxy is on a box by itself attached to the workgroup. Do I need to nic's in this machine to route everone through it? Does a client have to be installed on each node (user) I have installed the proxy on the 2000 proffesional box but I don't see anywhere to truly set it up and log what sites people are going to or how to restrict the sites they go to. Please help

Steve

[deftech]

the way i have it setup is:

2 nics in the proxy, one for the WAN one for the LAN.

When you install wingate it should detect which card is the wan card, and make it 'external' and your other nic 'internal'. It's pretty good at detecting.

2 nics is by far the best setup in my opinion.

Once you got it installed and verified the cards are external and internal (the network tab), then it should just be working. You can check the www proxy service on the services tab, and check the bindings. Make sure it says "bind to any local internal interface".

You don't have to load a client on each node. Just go into the internet explorer settings and tell it to use a proxy server, and type in the local address of your wingate machine, and the port you are using for the www proxy service, I think by default it's 80.

By default also, I think NAT is enabled, so if you wanted more tcp/ip functionality then just set your workstations gateway and dns settings to point to the local lan address of your wingate machine.

hope this helps.

[mrpifloyd]

But one further question is what to do if all clients are static ips but they run a 3com firewall/router as their gateway now. Does the proxy go to the roughter and then out and they would be different subnets?

[deftech]

Different subnets would work.

Plug router to wingate wan card (1st nic ex. 192.168.0.1)

Plug switch/hub to wingate lan card (2nd nic ex. 10.0.0.1)

Plug workstations into switch/hub (workstation ips and gateway would point to 10.0.0.1 for access)

Just make sure you designate which lan card is external and internal in wingates setup.