Question about connections from internet to Wingate...

[P-J]

Right, here's the deal.

We're using Wingate 5.2.3 and we are using the ENS plugin. We have a local ip range of 172.16.0.xxx.

We forward a lot of ports from the internet to our servers. SMTP, IMAP, Webmail, HTTP and many others using the ENS firewall.

It's all hunky dory if we have a machine 'off-site'. It can access these internet ports and the packets are forwarded on to the correct machine. However, trying to use our internet IP address from inside the building gives us 'no reply'.

Is there any way Wingate can be configured so that if a connection comes from inside our building to our public IP, it is treated as if it was a connection from the internet?

It's a weird request, but it's useful for us to be able to do this.

Help much appreciated :)

(Incidentally our setup is a server with an ADSL PCI modem built in, and Wingate 5.2.3 running on that machine...)

[ChrisH]

On the particular service properties in GateKeeper select the Non-proxy Requests Tab and check the Pipe request through to predetermined server and enter server name or IP and port number and you should be good to go. Also make sure that the service is bound to your LAN IP( should be already I would think).

[P-J]

On the particular service properties in GateKeeper select the Non-proxy Requests Tab and check the Pipe request through to predetermined server and enter server name or IP and port number and you should be good to go. Also make sure that the service is bound to your LAN IP( should be already I would think).

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it doesn't help. We don't use any of the services, we just use the ENS firewall to forward ports to certain addresses.

Ideally we need to get the firewall to deal with requests to our public IP from the LAN. At the moment the firewall doesn't even touch any of those type of connections, it just allows them through to the Wingate machine.

Any further ideas?

[ChrisH]

Sorry, misunderstood. Did you try Mapping? You can also redirect packets to particular ports in the ENS, LAN connections to the WinGate PC, to the desired IP address. Beyond those suggestions I am unable to offer anything else. I'm sure there are others that have more knowledge about this than I do. Good luck!