Allowing specific external IP addresses through the firewall

[petergr]

I have an internet based application (share trading) which is running very slowly. Looking at the firewall log it appears that the firewall is blocking a lot of traffic from one specific IP when using this application. I would like to allow this IP address through, hopefully allowing it to run at full speed. I couldnt find any way of doing this when I looked through the options.

Thanks

[pascalpauwels]

I have an internet based application (share trading) which is running very slowly. Looking at the firewall log it appears that the firewall is blocking a lot of traffic from one specific IP when using this application. I would like to allow this IP address through, hopefully allowing it to run at full speed. I couldnt find any way of doing this when I looked through the options.

Thanks

[MattP]

Hi Peter,

WinGate's firewall is port based as opposed to IP based so it's not possible to allow connections from one particular IP address. You can open the ports that the remote computer is trying to access then require assumptions based on IP address. If you then assign this IP address to a username you can authenticate the access. There are problems with this though, in that assumptions are our lowest form of authentication and opening ports on the firewall opens the ports to all external users.

If it is just one machine that is running the share trading software then you can open the required ports in the port security menu and map them through to that one machine.

You should be able to find out from the software providers which ports need to be opened to provide optimal performance.

Regards,

Matt

[genie]

You can move this client machine out to DMZ - since WG6 supports DMZ.

[petergr]

Thanks for the advice.
I ended up putting in a hardware router instead.

All is now working well.

Peter G