Using 2 Ethernet Cards on 1 PC

[laloo]

I am connected to the Internet through Leased Line Connectivity.

A Sonicwall Firewall Appliance and Cisco Router (1721) are connected to the network to control access.

I am using a Windows 2000 Professional Server with 2 LAN cards and Wingate 5.2.3.

I would like to use one of the Ethernet cards to allow Authentication of Winagte users for my Local LAN. The other Ethernet card would be connected to the LAN Port of the Firewall Appliance.

How do i enable Wingate to Authenticate the users and allow them access through 2 different Ethernet cards.

Thanks

[MattP]

Hi,

If I understand you correctly you simply want to have one NIC pointing to your LAN/clients and the other NIC pointing at the internet via the router? This is the recommended set-up for WinGate and it will work as designed if you use this configuration.

This way all client traffic must pass through WinGate to access the internet, allowing you to authenticate clients and control access.

I hope this answers your questions, is there anything else you need to know?

Regards,

Matt

[laloo]

Dear Matt,

You have understood my problem correctly. I have installed the 2 NICs and have made the bindings for the 1st (local) NIC so that users can authenticate through it and the gateway for the 2nd NIC is the Firewall Hardware Appliance.

Users in same subnet as that of NIC 1 are able to access internet but users in all other subnets are unable to reach the NIC 1 and hence do not get the Java Authentication screen for www proxy.

Moreover these are a lot of requests being generated on the Gatekeeper for Guest Access through (NAT UDP) which are being rejected authentication by wingate. (I have changed the wingate guest password)

Wingate server sometimes hangs due to this.

[MattP]

where is the second subnet connecting to the WinGate server? If you want to have more than one subnet on your LAN you will need to "enable support for multiple subnets" in the Extended Networking menu, so you must have ENS installed.

You should probably not change the password for the guest account as WinGate uses this account for system activity, if you want to have your users authenticating then you can set up usernames for them or use the NT database.

Can the users in the other subnets ping the WinGate server?

Regards,

Matt