Wingate installed on a 2003 Terminal Server.

[bob@korehicom.com]

I'm setting up a 2003 terminal server in a remote office and need a proxy to improve speed of Internet Browsing. Can I install Wingate on the 2003 server and use a second NIC for the proxy. Also I'm considering two T1s, one for the corporate VPN and the second for Internet access. Has this been tried?

[adrien]

Hi Bob

WinGate itself should run on a 2003 TS fine. Depending on your network setup though, you may not need another NIC.

will this TS have many users logged in that you want to pipe through the proxy? If so you would be better running WinGate on another machine if you want to enforce policy for browsing, otherwise the users will have the same network access that WinGate has, and may be able to bypass it. Performance is generally better on a different machine as well, since each packet is handled fewer times by the CPU. With browsing through WinGate on the local machine, the data is handled twice as many times (once by the proxy, and once by the client).

Regards

Adrien