Satellite Setup

[nuanda]

Greetings

I recently signed up for satellite internet service. I need some tips to get this service to work with Wingate.

Prior to the Satellite service I had Wingate working fine, sharing a modem internet connection on a network. Then the satellite service guy came. They installed a PCI PVR card for satellite reception and a USB DSL modem for the upload.

Now here's where it gets tricky. In order to make the satellite download work, you have to go into internet explorer - options - connection - right-click the ADSL dial up connection to bring up additional properties, check the proxy server box, and enter 127.0.0.1:9202 for WWW and secure (9203 for winsock). Then you make the ADSL modem connection. Then you run a program that opens a web page to log you into the satellite connection (page address is like http://localhost:2517/bin..).

At that point the internet connection works, but not Wingate. Even gatekeeper can no longer find wingate engine.

I'm no networking genious so if anyone can explain what's going on here I would really appreciate it.

[nuanda]

Well I fixed it thanks to an unrelated post by Alejandro

The deal with the satellite broadband connection is that it uses a program which has a client proxy service, intalled on internet gateway machine (read wingate server) listening on a particular port (9202 in my case). This client then sends the request out to a server proxy on the internet along with some conneciton keys and such.

So to make this work with Wingate, you must set the wingate WWW proxy to "cascade" to the client proxy (in my case 127.0.0.1:9202 or localhost:9202). You must also be using Transparent Redirect, or proxying.

Also, this program mentioned above is a web server on port 2517 which provides the Satellite Login and Status web pages.

Haven't yet tried to set up socks or FTP requests to route through the satellite.

Hope this helps some one.

[alejandroc]

Hey!

Well, I'm glad my post helped!

Alejandro

[nuanda]

I should also add that anyone wanting to set up a satellite/DSL connection like this should avoid using a USB DSL modem.

A USB DSL modem requires special networking adapters/bindings which create a new interface on your machine. In my case, this caused networking problems and slowed down my PC.

I replaced it with an ethernet DSL modem. This way the DSL modem is NOT an interface on my wingate server.