WinGate Services

Services are the heart of WinGate operation. WinGate’s services come in three main types:

Servers

Software Servers are a programs than run on one machine to provide a service to many other machines or users. Examples of this are Email servers and FTP servers. WinGate has DNS, SOCKS, Remote control, and a basic Web server.

Proxies

Proxies are programs or parts of programs running on a machine on a network. They allow client machines to access external servers of the clients’ choice, but do not actually do the serving. Proxies do something on your behalf by passing client requests to the external server. WinGate has WWW, POP3 (email), FTP, Telnet, Streamworks, VDOLive and Real Audio proxies.

Pipes or Mapped links

Pipes are the most basic service. Pipes simply redirect requests to another location. WinGate has 2 types of Pipe - TCP and UDP mapped links.

By default the installation of WinGate 2.1 sets up all the standard services on standard ports. You may already be running an Internet server of some type (eg a FTP server or WEB server) or you have other certain requirements. In this case you will need to run the WinGate service (or the server) on a different port. The next section has details on how best to integrate with other servers. This is because only one application on a machine can listen to a given port at any one time.

WinGate Services:

WWW Proxy

SOCKS Server

FTP Proxy

POP3 Proxy

Telnet Proxy

DNS Server

VDOLive Proxy

RealAudio Proxy

Xing Streamworks Proxy

Mapping Proxies

Remote control service

DHCP Server

See also:

Integrating WinGate with other services

Adding and modifying services with GateKeeper.

Tab	Service	Description
General	All	This has the name and description of the Service, and the port on which connections are accepted.
Bindings	All	This tab enables the administrator to specify what interfaces allow incoming requests for that service. The interfaces listed are all possible interfaces on the WinGate machine.
Policies	All	Every service has its own rules. There is an option to include default policies. If these are included, then privileges from ‘Default Policies’ will be included.
Logging	All	All services can be ‘logged’ or Audited. This is the process of recording details about when and how each service is used.
Sessions	All bar DHCP	This tab has configurable timeouts for the service, and some services can limit the number of connections.
Interfaces	All bar DNS & DHCP	This tab allows specification of which interfaces are used for outward connections. This enables combinations of multiple modem, ISDN or direct connections.
Connection	All TCP Services	This tab allows the administrator to choose how the proxy makes the connection to the internet. Choices include Directly, Cascade, SOCKS4, or SSL.
Non Proxy request	All Proxies bar Telnet	This tab enables the Administrator to integrate other servers with WinGate, by dealing with requests on the port that are not in the Proxy request form.
DHCP Mode	DHCP	Allows selection of the mode of DHCP operation, from Fully automatic to manual.
DHCP Settings	DHCP	The DHCP service has many configurable options. The settings tab allows configuration of these options including scopes leases and reservations.
Mappings	Mapped links	This tab controls configuration of mappings per user or location.
Encryption	Mapped links	This tab configures encryption options that are available for Mapped links.
SOCKS Advanced	SOCKS	This contains several options Relevant to SOCKS including HTTP hand-over and options for SOCKS requests.