WinGate is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today’s Internet-connected businesses. WinGate’s comprehensive range of license options provides you the flexibility to choose the features and capabilities that best match your needs and budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network.

WinGate will share most types of Internet connections effortlessly, allowing multiple users to simultaneously surf the web, retrieve their email, or chat with online messaging, as if they were directly connected to the Internet. Whether it is a simple dialup modem or hi tech broadband solution, WinGate can help to make the most out of the connection. WinGate will handle requests from a wide variety of Web applications and Internet protocols, such as Web browsers, Messaging software, FTP and SSL. WinGate also supports DirectPlay Internet games and Real Time Streaming Audio/Video.

With WinGate’s user database and policies, parents and administrators alike can limit and control users access to the web. Logging, auditing, and a real time activity and history viewer – detailed records of user activities can be easily examined. This makes WinGate an ideal choice for Internet cafes and network administrators who work in environments where Internet access needs to be monitored closely.

WinGate comes complete with a built in firewall to ensure that each Internet connection is kept safe from attacks by hackers and intruders from the Internet. Your network safety can be further enhanced with optional plug-in components, available seperately, which will scan incoming data for viruses, or filter out inappropriate content. This gives peace of mind to both parents and network administrators, so that you can be sure that your family or co-workers are using the Internet appropriately.

Key Functions. WinGate allows you to:
• Provide secure and managed Internet access for your entire network via a single or multiple shared internet connections
• Enforce advanced and flexible access-control and acceptable use policies
• Monitor usage in real time, and maintain per-user and per-service audit logs.
• Stop viruses, spam and inappropriate content from entering your network
• Provide comprehensive internet and intranet email services.
• Protect your servers from internal or external threats.
• Improve network performance and responsiveness with web and DNS caching
• Ease administration burdens on your internal networks.

Key Benefits. Using WinGate to actively manage the use of your Internet and network resources can provide many benefits, including:
• Improved Employee productivity
• Minimised time and resources required to maintain network integrity
• Reduced Employer liabilities
• Improved efficiency, responsiveness and reliability of network access

Changes in Version 6.6.1 Build 1278 (28 May 2009):
1. Fixed an ARP problem introduced in 6.6.0 which prevented some gateway routers from communicating with WinGate.

Changes in Version 6.6.0 Build 1277 (27 May 2009):
1. New WWW proxy, including changes relating to auth, scanning, caching, pipelining, and HTTP/1.1 support
2. Fixed an issue relating to FIN/RST handling and timeout behaviour in Extended networking.
3. Resolved dialup issues on 2k3 server.
4. Fixed a bug in the IMAP server where it was case-sensitive to certain commands.
5. Fixed a problem with ARP cache timeouts and refreshing.
6. Reworked the VPN control connection mechanism to harden it against attack.
7. Added tunnel keep-alive packets to keep tunnels active through NAT devices.
8. Fixed a problem with editing schedule item actions in VPN-only UI.
9. Fixed a problem editing access rights on hosted VPNs from a remote GateKeeper in VPN-only UI.
10. Deprecated cache freshness overrides (number of days before checking…) in WWW cache.
11. Added schedule option to resynch NT user database

Homepage – http://www.wingate.com

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