In need of Socks-Proxy-help

[adrien]

HI

bindings are used to set up which interfaces a service will be available on. For instance if a SOCKS server is bound to your internal LAN Adapter, then clients on that LAN can connect to that SOCKS server.

Gateways are used to configure which internet connection will be used when WinGate wants to make a connection out. You probably don't want to alter these, if your OpenVPN client (i'm presuming this is on the WinGate computer) creates a virtual adapter, it will most likely also create subnet routes etc so that normal routing will suffice to send traffic across the VPN.

Regards

Adrien

[adrien]

Hi

127.0.0.1 is a special address, known as localhost or loopback. It refers always (and only) to the machine you're on. So if you try to connect to 127.0.0.1 it will fail unless the server is running on the same computer as the client (which you don't want in this case).

Your client needs to be configured to connect to the IP address of the computer running WinGate.

Regards

Adrien

[adrien]

Well, you could install WinGate on every computer.

but there's no point. You can install it on the gateway. That's what everyone does. It's a network proxy / gateway, not a personal filtering app.

Regards

Adrien

[adrien]

OK I'm getting a better picture.

What VPN do you connect to? Do you then also connect across that VPN to some proxy hosted by the VPN provider, or do they just NAT you out on their side?

I'm just thinking you may be able to get WinGate to use 2 gateways - 1 for the VPN, and the other for your actual connection, and set a proxy to use the real local gateway (Gateways settings in the SOCKS server).

Do you see 2 gateways in the network connections tab in WinGate Management?

Adrien

[adrien]

Hi

I'm trying to figure out how the OpenVPN client can tunnel everything through a remote network without adding a default gateway to the host OS.. .I take it you still only see 1 gateway even with the VPN is connected?

If OpenVPN does something like tunnel all outbound packets from the server, then WinGate can't really do anything about it.... you'd need to use a different connection.

Adrien