Wingate 8 not working as a gateway

[AlexIF]

I am looking for a replacement for MS TMG and i have downloaded a Wingate 8 free licence

i've got two nics :
external 192.168.201.34 Gateway is a Netgear dsl routeur ip = 192.168.201.2
internal 192.168.200.34
i can browse the internet on this computer
in the extended network driver tab the three first checkboxes are checked for routing.
host is a Windows 2008 r2 computer with Windows firewall disabled (server member).

another computer (ip=192.168.200.36 and gw=192.168.200.34) cannot load an internet site.
nslookup resolves correctly on this computer (dns server is another server connected to the internet).
in ms i.e. if using a server proxy, access is granted.
only nat access doesn't work

what is the problem ? I am in a deadlock, any help appreciated, thanks.

[adrien]

Hi

Do you see any connection in the WinGate Management activity screen when you try to make a NAT connection?

I would check that

a) there is no default gateway setting on the internal adapter on the WinGate computer - only on the external one
b) the WinGate Network driver is showing as attached to all network cards in the system

Regards

Adrien

[AlexIF]

i have finally worked it out.
I found that when Wingate firewall was disabled NAT was working.
the default config was on "custom" with no rules in port security. Setting anything else than disabled in the firewall resets the checkbox to "custom" with no rules.
I created some rules and now it works as expected.
Wingate comes with a number or user licences, what about incoming connections for examples when publishing a port such as a mail server, is it unlimited ?
Regards

[adrien]

Hi

thanks for posting that about the rules. Can't believe I've never noticed it.

WinGate doesn't distinguish where connections come from when it comes to counting connected IPs for licensing.

However, in the case of the SMTP server (and some others) licensing isn't counted - so you can have unlimited connections to the SMTP server (for receiving mail) on a free license.

Adrien