Next message: Brian Durant: "Re: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian tech problem."
I've added the list back in. As your problem is rather off-topic, you
should consider joining the
wingate forum at http://forum1.deerfield.com/~wingate. I've added a
couple of comments below.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Durant [mailto:bdurant@peterlink.ru]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:34 AM
> To: Richard Doyle
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian
> tech problem.
>
>
> On 10/7/01 0:53, Richard Doyle at rdoyle@islandnetworks.com
> wrote: / den
> 10/7/01 0:53 skrev Richard Doyle fra
> rdoyle@islandnetworks.com følgende:
>
> > Without knowing more about your setup, it sounds as though the techs
> > installed WRP for use with Windows clients, and NAT or
> > proxies for use
> > with the others. If so, the networking setup on your Linux
> > box should
> > resemble that on your UMAX machine.
> >
> > What version of Wingate are you running? Can you access the Wingate
> > control program (Gatekeeper)? Does your UMAX box get its IP
> > and other
> > parameters with DHCP from the Wingate server? There really
> > isn't enough
> > information here to give you much specific help. You can
> > get a lot of
> > information on your Win 98 SE box by running winipcfg. You
> > can confirm
> > that you are running WRP on your wintel client by looking
> > at the control
> > panel, which should contain an icon for the Wingate client.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Here is some of the info:
>
> 1) WinGate version 4.0.1
OK. The professional and standard editions of this version include both
a NAT router and WRP as well as a set of proxies.
> 2) Can't access Gatekeeper as it is password protected and no
> one knows the
> password, except for the first set of techs.
This makes it difficult, and perhaps impossible, to fix your problem.
You will have to work around a configuration that you can't determine
and can't change. You really should buy a new license, or contact the
techs at http://wingate.deerfield.com for help.
> 3) Wingate machine also has PC Mclan installed. The TCP/IP
> address that I
> access is different than the WinGate machine's IP address.
see below
> 4) Tried winipcfg and found that the machine is both has a
> PPP adapter and
> NIC adapter. The NIC IP is the same as the machine's IP
> and different
> than the IP that I use to access the Internet through the WinGate
> machine.
It helps to associate IPs with interfaces rather than machines. The PPP
adapter (dial-up?) is your interface to the Internet; it has an IP
number, which may change each time you connect. The NIC adapter is your
interface to your internal network; it has an IP number, probably
192.168.0.1, that won't change. The machine itself has no other IP
number, other than 127.0.0.1, which is associated with the loopback
interface. Machines on your network need to know the IP address of the
NIC on your Wingate machine; they don't generally need to know the IP
number of your external interface.
The first step is to get the Linux box on your LAN. It can't communicate
with the Internet if it can't communicate with the internal interface on
the Wingate box. Wingate can act as a DHCP server; if it is active, the
Linux box should be able to autoconfigure by running a DHCP client, such
as dhclient or pump.
If your Wingate setup includes NAT, you should configure the Linux
machine to use 192.168.0.1 (or the IP of the NIC on the wingate box) as
a gateway (gw). Autoconfiguration could take care of this.
> 5) I am unsure about whether I am running WRP (what is that?)
> as I do not
> see a separate control panel for that.
The control panel will be on the windows client. WRP and some other bits
support the Wingate transparent proxy function, but this only works with
windows clients.
To be honest, a multi-platform LAN is a difficult beast. If you want to
proceed you will either need to learn a lot about a lot of topics, or
hire someone to do it for you. At least you have learned to avoid
certain Russian techs!
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
> --
>
Good luck,
Richard
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