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WinGate 4.1.1Internet Connection sharing software solution
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Features It has some very neat features about it, one that I really liked is the History. With the history it keeps track of everything that goes through it, every web address that passes through it! It’s really pretty neat to browse through and see everything that’s come through it. This is a good feature to watch either what your kids are doing online and or your employees at work. It’s accessed through the Gate Keeper on the server machine where Wingate server is running. I only ran into a few anomalies running Wingate on my LAN. As you know I had WinGate running on Windows 2000 Server and one of my client pc’s was Windows 2000 Professional. Well because of the different network settings in Windows 2000 versus Windows 98/ME-tweaking Wingate is a little bit harder in Windows 2000. One problem I kept having was a DNS issue. Sometimes domain names got a little messed up with the IP’s they were supposed to go with. I would type in one Internet address and it would go to the previous Internet address I was at, no matter what I did, even constant refreshing wouldn’t fix it. I had to close IE and re-open it for it to fix it. Another annoying issue was I kept getting time outs, I would click on a link it would say “this page could not be displayed” it was timing out. Closing IE and re-opening it also fixed this. And the other main thing was since I have @Home they use friendly domain names for the Mail and News servers. @Home uses “Mail” and “News” for the mail and news servers. But with WinGate running it did not understand what Mail and News should translate to. This was fixable by manually inputting the DNS on each machine, server and clients. So there are a few minor bugs in Windows 2000 at this time, but they are minor, just annoying. Everything can be made to work, that’s the beauty of WinGate it’s very flexible with many options for tweaking to get everything to work just right. I tried other services as well and they all worked with no problems. Napster started up and ran normally without me even having to configure any ports! It just instantly worked just as it did before. ICQ no problems there, I was able to receive and transmit files with no problems at all. IRC, worked like a champ, no settings needed to be changed. FTP? No problems either! I was able to FTP into my server from work just as normal as ever. WinGate has very good support for services run over the network, it’s a very powerful piece of software. One other question I hear a lot of people asking with this type of thing is Firewall capability, how good is it? So for that I went to www.grc.com and ran their firewall tests on my server to see how well it went. I can tell you first hand that the firewall capability’s work GREAT! My NetBIOS (Port 139) was Stealth, yes Stealth! That means for all intents and purposed it doesn’t exist to hackers.
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