Gateway in WWW Proxy

[jvrsvw]

Hi Guys

I am configuring Wingate to use multiple connections and have hit a wall. If I add my DSL connection and wireless connection under gateways and set it to rotation it does not work all traffic goes via the DSL which shows in a route print that it is the default gateway. If I disable the DSL lan card the wireless connection takes over route print again then shows the wireless as the default gateway.

Even if I do not have any gateways entered it still connects through the DSL, even if I only have the Wireless listed as a gateway it ignores that and use the DSL.

It looks like the connection scheme drop down is ignored and all browsing only exits out via the default gateway under route print. Am I doing something wrong ? Any ideas please

Regards

[adrien]

Hi

1. Make sure the extended networking is enabled / installed in WinGate
2. Make sure you're not running the windows firewall / alg.exe. this messes with gateway selection, because it translates the source ports on all your outbound connections, which means we don't match the connection in our driver with the one we make from the engine.

Regards

Adrien

[jvrsvw]

Hi Adrien

The ENS is installed and active, I have checked for the windows firewall process and it does not exist, and in the services in MMC it is set to disabled.

Any other ideas ?

Cheers

[logan]

What about the Application Layer Gateway service (ALG.exe). That should be disabled as well if it is currently enabled.

Do you have any other AntiVirus or Firewall programs installed on the computer? Anything that intercepts outbound connections from WinGate will have the potential to override it's gateway selection. I know that McAffe AV suites do this if they are configured to scan HTTP traffic since it will intercept connections on port 80 to do so.

[jvrsvw]

ALG.exe is not running and I set the service to disabled now. We use Trend Micro Officescan, I will see if I uninstall it if it makes a difference.

[jvrsvw]

I uninstalled Trend Officescan, that did not affect the situation. The WWW proxy service just sends traffic through the Default Gateway, I set the Gateways to "use specified connection in priority order" and listed one DSL connection. If I enable the Wireless connections network card then that becomes the default gateway under route print and the WWW proxy then just uses the wireless although it is not even configured to be used in the Gateway selection.

[serginho]

please be aware that I haven't run into a similar situation, and yet, it still might be silly, but I've got multi-homed systems (in applications other than routing) to run a lot more the way I wanted them, when correctly setting adapter preferred order under Windows. Just in case it's usefull...

Under Network Connection, the Advanced menu, Advanced configurations (XP), then pick the more appropriated order

Good luck, hope it's useful !

[adrien]

we can take a look with remote desktop or VNC if you like.

just submit a support ticket with details of how to connect to you etc.

Regards

Adrien

[jvrsvw]

I just got the same issue on my 2nd Wingate server, can someone point me to a guide to setup mutliple connections in wingate as I am thinking I might be doing something wrong.

This Wingate has 3 DSL connections, 1 WWW proxy is setup with one of the DSL connections, as soon as I enable a second network card all config goes out the door and the www proxy uses that connection. It uses the default gateway eveytime no matter the setup in the WWW proxy. I am stumped.....

[jvrsvw]

I just got the same issue on my 2nd Wingate server, can someone point me to a guide to setup mutliple connections in wingate as I am thinking I might be doing something wrong.

This Wingate has 3 DSL connections, 1 WWW proxy is setup with one of the DSL connections, as soon as I enable a second network card all config goes out the door and the www proxy uses that connection. It uses the default gateway eveytime no matter the setup in the WWW proxy. I am stumped.....


I see that the metrics of each connection differs, but I understand that wingate will honour the connection chosen in the WWW Proxy..... Sadly it is not working like that :(

[adrien]

Hi

Any chance we can have a look with remote desktop?

Regards

Adrien

[jvrsvw]

Hi

I saw that Wingate stated that my gateways were dead, I removed the monitor for dead gateways in ENS and rotation seems to work now. :) Gateways are not dead as I can ping them.

I will monitor this and supply feedback to keep you informed.

I have a small other issue what will create a new post for that.

Cheers

[adrien]

hI

WinGate from 6.5 onwards uses a tracert-style of probe packet to determine if the link is up or down.

The reason was that being able to ping your DSL router doesn't mean it's connected to the net. So we set the TTL on the probe packet to 3, which therefore tests 3 hops.

If the 3rd hop doesn't reply with a TTL expired message, we consider the link dead. I guess we need to probe different TTLs in case there's something at the nth hop (fixed n) which drops ICMP or something.

Regards

Adrien