internet access with no authentication

[dme]

A piece of office equipment will need access to the internet to access its online services. It will be using SSL/TLS through port 443 to secure the communication with its remote services and communiation will only be initiated from the device to the service.

I am investigating how various proxy servers will handle this scenario. Can Wingate be configured to not require any authentication for this device? Would that be by IP address? MAC address?

All other users will be required to authenticate to gain internet access

[MattP]

Hi,

You could create an IP address assumption for this device, then create a new policy for the user name that you assume the device to be. Only that user will be allowed to access the internet with an assumption so that should accomplish what youre trying to do.

You can create an assumption on the Users tab. Just enter the IP address of the device and map it to a username.

[dme]

So no authentication is necessary from this device because there's an assumption that this IP address is associated with the user created in the Gateway User database right?

sounds like the device IP address should be a fixed address then and not leased from DHCP.

thanks for your help

BTW I tried to download the 6.0 help files but only seem to get the help file table of contents - not the actual help files themselves. Whe I click on a topic I get a the "page cannot be displayed" page

any ideas? I have not downloaded or installed the actual Wingate software yet

[adrien]

You can set up an assumption by machine-name rather than IP, if that machine is getting its IP address from WinGate's DHCP service, then WinGate can associate the machine name with the IP, and then the user name with the machine name.

I'll check on the help file link - that didn't change however with the new release.

Adrien