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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
