mechanism of differentiating remote connections

[Dassburger]

Hello!

How does WinGate determine if an application wants to connect to a remote service or LAN service when using WRP? I see WinGate username and password popup window when Windows logon screen appears, and when it tries to resolve some name by means of DNS (DNS server is in LAN). I tried checking for viruses and trojans but found nothing.

[erwin]

Hi there

WGIC on the client machine catches all WinSock calls made by Winsock based applications and sends them to the WinGate server. With WRP (Windows Redirection Protocol) running on the WinGate server, the server receives these connections and deems if they are local or bound for an external destination.

If the connections are for local applications it will tell the client traffic to redirect itself to the correct local machine/app. This is done completely transparent to the client machine making the requests, so that it appears that local apps work locally and external requests such as FTP and Web are connected to the Internet.

Regards
Erwin