WWW Proxy server - transparent proxy.

[blitz77]

Good day!

I am new to Wingate, I've installed Wingate and clients are connecting thru NAT and its working fine, Can anybody guide me thru setting WWW Proxy Server to use transparent proxy, how to configure the server side and client side using Guest accounts.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Hi

To get the server to intercept connections, you edit the WWW proxy, select the Sessions tab, click the Add button, and enter port 80. Also make sure that the checkbox for intercepting connections is set as well.

If the clients are already using NAT (i.e. they have their default gateway (TCP/IP adapter properties) set to the WinGAte machine's IP), then there's no change required on the client.

Adrien

[blitz77]

Thanks to the reply...

I already tried what you suggest but when i enable the intercept connections in the transparent proxy using port 80 i cannot browse websites, (im using firefox, OS is Vista 32), is says website found but its giving the message connection timed out.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Hi

So NAT was working through WinGate, but now that the connection is intercepted you get a connection timeout?

Do you see this as a report from WinGate that the connection timed out, or the browser? E.g. does it come up as a page in the browser with text like "Socket error" and a wingate link at the bottom (a WinGate socket error response page) or a browser page?

Regards

Adrien

[blitz77]

Hi!

The connection timedout is in the browser and the page is from the browser, theres no message in wingate server, the browser can see the URL but unable to display the page.

Im using Wingate 6.2.2, OS is WinXPSP2.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Hi

Do you have more than 1 IP address on your internal adapter on the WinGate machine?

You can get this problem for instance if you have multiple internal IPs, but the WWW proxy is not bound to all internal IPs, and so when the connection is intercepted, and the driver forwards the connection up to WinGate, if it doesn't choose an IP to forward to that has the WWW proxy listening on it, then the connection will fail.

If you do, try setting the WWW proxy to listen to all IPs on that interface.

Regards

Adrien

[blitz77]

I install Wingate using scenario 2 in manual...

NIC1 = IP-192.168.1.1, SUB-255.255.255.0 connected to ADSL Gateway.
NIC2 = IP-192.168.0.1, SUB-255.255.255.0 connected to LAN, workstation uses static IP and set them as assumed users in Wingate, no need to log-in to authenticate.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Is there any other firewall on that computer that could be blocking incoming connections to WinGate? E.g. windows firewall?