Checking ports remotely

[bunty]

Hi!

We are using Wingate as proxy server. We want to know wheather we can check remotly that the proxy port(Like 80 for http) are running or not?
whatz the method to check remotely?

Thanks

[genie]

Erm... Connecting to this port? Like, telneting to it?

[bunty]

Thands for your reply. Actually our Wingate is installed on server adn sometimes we are awauy from server and we wish to check wheather the proxy server is running and its port service(like http and socks) are runing or stoped. We wanna check these services from our client machines. Also tell he is it possibel to start these services from remote machines??

Bunty

[genie]

This is what Gatekeeper is good for - you can connect to Wingate server remotely and check the status of every service running.

[bunty]

Genie Thx for ur reply. But how to do all this???

rgds
Bunty

[genie]

If you start Gatekeeper and connect it to your Wingate machine, you will see a list of services on the left - the services are marked according to their state - running, not running, etc. There is also a system log windows, which tells you if there are problems with Wingate running properly.

[bunty]

Geine Thx for ur quick reply, U mean we have to install Gatekeeper on remote machine. If this is the solution then Thx and I will install it t'row.

One more thing I want to know that we have two internet connections one is Lease Line by RF link and second is Broadband. both are connected on server with two different LAN cards and the third LAN card for the local LAN. Our lease is of 512KBPS and Broadband is of 256KBPS. what we need is we wanna merge this two bandwiths so our users who are using internet by wingate proxy can get the total of 512+256=768KPBS of bandwidth. Is their any feature to do this in wingate???

rgds
Bunty

[genie]

You don't need to install Gatekeeper - simnply copy the executable somewhere (even on a disk) and you can run it from anywhere.

As of the bandwidth agreggation - Wingate at the moment does not support it, but it does support gateway selection, so you can round-robin you HTTP connections to improve the performance.