Port redirection in Wingate 6.0.3 with Firewall disabled

[Guilhermino]

I'd like to know if there is any way I can get Ports redirected ( to use eMule ) with Wingate Firewall disabled ( since I use a different firewall ).
Thanks.

[Pascal]

The easiest option would be to use a custom firewall setup in WinGate. Set the port redirections up, but leave all other options at "Allow". (The drop down combo in the bottom right of each port range setup).

That way, your redirection firewall actions will still be in place, but all other traffic will just be transparently redirected through.

[Guilhermino]

But if I use the Wingate firewall, even with such custom options, won't it still pose a security risk, since you don't know who is going to grab the network packets first, the Wingate Firewall, or my own personal Firewall ?
At least that's the alert the developers of my personal Firewall make relative to using another firewall in conjunction. Does Wingate behave differently ?
Thank you.

[Pascal]

It'll all be setup related. Why would that be a security risk, though?

If you want WinGate to be able to redirect the packets for you - you will need to allow those packets through the other firewall (If it saw them first). Otherwise, your firewall would block those packets.

If WinGate sees the packets first, they'll be redirected and your firewall will never see them.

Either way - the redirection happens as you have it setup. Easiest option might be to test it - to see how the two interact. (Difficult to say, as we don't know what your other firewall product is, how it hooks the network traffic, at which levels it operates, if it's software/hardware based, on the same machine or a different machine acting as a gateway for the WinGate Server, etc.)

[Guilhermino]

My concern is to know if the packets that Wingate grabs, that are not redirected, will still be presented to my Firewall.
I have Kerio Personal Firewall 4.1.2 on gateway mode on a machine that has the Wingate server installed.
Thanks.

[Pascal]

If you are allowing the packets through they should still filter through. I'll get Genie to have a look at this - he's more of an in-depth driver guru.

[genie]

I would suggest that you leave only one firewall functional - not because of any security risk but because of various race-like problems, associated with having two active firewalls - like, who is going to see the packet first when it is being received or being sent.