WinGate Features
ENS - Extended Network Support
Extended Network Support provides powerful Internet capabilities to users on your network.
The WinGate ENS enables the following: General Purpose Internet Sharing (NAT-based), Firewall and Port Security, Multi-Subnet Bridging (Routing).
Proxies may capture ENS and WGIC traffic, which allows the user to receive the advantages of the proxy, such as caching and advanced access control, with the freedom from configuration that comes with ENS and WGIC. This feature must be enabled on the Sessions tab of any particular service you want to use the feature with. Make sure the proxy is on a standard port, or this feature wont work.
The DNS server is a fully-functioning proxy, capable of dealing with any request from clients. It includes complete caching functionality, which greatly improves performance, and can read system configuration files, hosts and LMhosts. The WinGate DNS server integrates with the DHCP server to allow DNS resolution for computer names on your network.
Remote GateKeeper Administration
WinGate can be configured and monitored from almost anywhere with GateKeeper (from the Internet if you choose). GateKeeper communicates with WinGate over an encrypted TCP/IP connection. This is provided by the Remote Control Service that is available with a Pro license.
DHCP automates the client network configuration for your entire LAN. With full-auto mode or manual mode, the WinGate DHCP will configure IP numbers and DNS for all your client computers.
Generic Discovery Protocol is a new protocol for finding or discovering Internet connectivity servers such as WinGate. It is used in the WinGate Internet Client (WGIC) and GateKeeper for finding WinGate.
The WinGate dialer takes the chore out of maintaining the Internet connection. Different ISP accounts can be configured, and access can be restricted by users groups and other parameters.
All WinGate services will store key information in Log Files named ServiceName.log that can be found in the Program File/WinGate/Logs folder (these can be viewed with any text-editor).
The WinGate Engine Monitor runs in the System-Tray and tells you whether or not the WinGate engine is starting, started, stopping, or stopped.
WinGate supports most internet games.
PPPoE Support for ENS
Extending upon the support of PPPoE within WinGates existing proxy settings, WinGate 4.5 now supports these connections through NAT (Network Address Translation) and while utilizing ENS (Extended Network Support). PPoE connection types are used particulary by ISPs in Canada, Australia and Korea.
Rights can be assigned to users for each service or on a global basis. Rights can be defined according to user/group, location, time of day, or advanced parameters of each particular request.
System Log
The WinGate System Log is a feature designed to assist the Administrator in diagnosing and fixing specific WinGate or general network problems.
The Winsock Redirection Service provides the Winsock redirection protocol or WRP. WRP allows nearly all your applications to run as if they are directly connected to the Internet. Once the WinGate Internet Client (WGIC) is installed on your client computers, no Internet software configuration is needed. Previous versions of WinGate required each application to be configured manually for proxy operation. This is no longer required, although any proxy-configured software will still work.
The WinGate WWW proxy is a HTTP/1.0 compliant caching HTTP proxy server. It supports HTTP requests, FTP requests, and SSL tunneling. The WinGate WWW proxy is also a web server. Features include the ability to handle normal (non-proxy) requests in a variety of ways, which makes it a good front-end to your existing WWW server. It supports cascading through another proxy or SOCKS4 server.
The non-proxy request (NPR) capability of many WinGate proxies allows other Internet servers to integrate seamlessly with WinGate, without conflicts or the need to use different port numbers. Any non-proxy request to a WinGate proxy can be piped to another server. This also allows WinGate to control access to other servers, which may not have the flexibility for access control that WinGate has.
The WinGate SOCKS server is SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 (RFC 1928) compliant. It supports RFC1929 authentication using the user accounts in the WinGate User Database. The WinGate SOCKS server is HTTP-aware. It can intercept HTTP requests, and handle them with the built-in WinGate WWW proxy. This means that even your SOCKS users will enjoy the benefits of the WWW proxy (e.g. caching), and can be subject to the same security policies.
The FTP Proxy provides access to FTP servers. It uses the username@hostname method of firewall traversal. The FTP Proxy supports non-proxy requests. This allows the proxy to act as a front end to an FTP server, or to cascade through other proxies. All FTP traffic can be scanned using data-scanning plugins.
POP3 Proxy
The WinGate POP3 proxy allows access to POP3 servers on the Internet for retrieving email. As with the WWW and FTP proxies, the POP3 Proxy can act as a front end to your POP3 server, giving you a seamlessly integrated mail system. It can also be cascaded through other proxies. All POP traffic can be scanned using data-scanning plugins.
The WinGate Telnet proxy provides access to telnet servers. The Telnet proxy in WinGate will support many telnet clients including Unix. Telnet also supports cascading. The Telnet proxy supports user login for further security.
RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) is used to transfer data with real-time properties, like audio and video data. RealPlayer and Quicktime can be configured to use the RTSP proxy. The RTSP proxy manages the data transfer across the UDP sockets better than the NAT. The NAT tends to use a TCP connection to stream all data. In the case of real time data this means that more data than necessary is being transmitted. The proxy manages the UDP connections better simply because it has a better understanding of the RTSP protocol and therefore provides better performance.
The Mapping proxies in WinGate provide generic connectivity for both TCP and UDP applications that do not support proxy protocols. Enhanced mapping allows mapped links based on user location or dialer profile. Mapping proxies for TCP support end-to-end encryption. This allows secure WinGate-to-WinGate connections over the Internet or LAN.
Interface Performance Monitor
Data traffic levels through WinGate 4.5 are illustrated in a graphical Traffic Monitor. Each interface (internal NIC, dial-up adapter, etc.) provides a separate report assisting in bandwidth utilization studies.
PureSight
As a plug-in available for WinGate, this content filtering technology is based on ACR (artificial content recognition) and boasts an aggressive accuracy rate within the categories "sex" and "gambling", without under-filtering or over-filtering. The primary filtering technology is based upon AI (artificial intelligence), which scans the content of the site with intelligent algorithms allowing the software to determine whether the subject matter is appropriate prior to displaying it.
Proxy Auto-Configuration
WinGate supports automatic proxy configuration. The feature is enabled on Internet Explorer by clicking:
- Tools
- Internet Options
- The Connections tab
- The Automatically Detect Settings checkbox.
The User database allows logging and auditing per individual user. Groups of users can be defined, and access rights can be assigned on a user or group basis. You can create nested groups (groups within groups) for even greater ease of user setup.
User Management and Authentication with NT / 2000
WinGate integrates with NT user databases. This simplifies user management on an NT / 2000 network and provides stronger NT-based authentication.
Ability to Import / Export WinGate Users
WinGate can import users and groups from other sources. The user database wizard enables the administrator to import or export all users and groups information to and from text files. Users can also be imported and totally integrated with an existing Windows NT or 2000 user database.
WinGate provides multiple methods of secure user authentication.
Support for Multiple Interfaces
WinGate can make use of multiple Internet connections to give you wider bandwidth and faster access. Combinations of modems, ISDN and direct connections are configurable on a per service level to give you full control and increased throughput.
This proxy enables all users on the LAN to enjoy live video using the streaming video player from VDONet Corporation. You need to ensure you have the proxy-capable version of the VDOLive player for this. Non-proxy handling also allows you to run your own VDO server, for which WinGate can act as the front end.
The XDMA proxy allows Xing Streamworks clients to operate on your network.
