Re: Win Gateway
If you have to use a Windows proxy program, I suggest using Rideway (from
www.itserv.com) instead of Wingate ..... its a fraction of the cost if you
decide to pay for it and much more straightforward to configure ..... I have
used it on small LAN's for some years and never had a problem, and at least
Itserv seems to have a bit of interest in supporting registered owners
..... Wingate on the other hand has never failed to give humungous problems,
its overpriced, and neither myself nor any of a number of associates
here in Australia who has tried to sort out the problems with Wingate has
ever managed to get as much as one email response from the company
-----Original Message-----
From: Lex Chive <lexchive@iname.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: 17 July 1999 02:37
Subject: Re: Win Gateway
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:30:00PM +0200, Algernon NG wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I won't bother with pppconfig and other anymore. I accept it won't work.
But Win does (I hate it!), so I would like to make my win computer act as an
Internet gateway.
>
> If anyone has any ideas how can I configure my machines (both the Linux
>
I think wingate is the easiest way to setup a win computer as a gateway. You
can take advantage of the included SOCKS server since it is very easy to run
most apps using socks quite transparently on linux (with the runsocks
script).
I think they also include modified dll to allow win machines to connect to
it.
Be advised that this is very insecure, inefficient and more difficult to set
up (the clients) than a linux gateway. For serious purposes you will
probably
want to use a proxy server (eg firedoor) but this is less straightforward to
set up.
As usual in the M$ world, none of these softwares are free.
-Lex
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