The Winsock Redirector Service provides Internet connection services for clients who have the WinGate Internet Client (WGIC) applet installed on their machines.
All applications on the client machine that make requests using Windows sockets (Winsock) will be caught by the WGIC and sent to the Winsock Redirector Service on the WinGate server for handling. The WGIC communicates with the Winsock Redirector Service on the WinGate server using the Winsock Redirection Protocol (WRP). WRP was designed by Qbik New Zealand Ltd specifically for the WGIC.
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Setting |
Default value |
|---|---|
Service Port |
2080 |
Bindings |
The Winsock Redirector Service will automatically bind any interfaces that have their usage marked as Internal by WinGate. |
Registered events |
ClientConnect, ClientDisconnect, ApplicationLoad, ApplicationConnection |
WinGate allows you to have only one instance of the Winsock Redirector Service installed at any time. Once it is installed it will no longer be available from the list of installable services. The Winsock Redirector service can be disabled or uninstalled when required.
WinGate ships with the WGIC.msi installer, which can be found in the Client folder of the \WinGate installation directory.
Since the WGIC has an MSI installer, it makes it ideal form of control which can be easily rolled out to a Windows Active Directory network. With sufficient Windows policy, the WGIC can be preconfigured to handle applications according to administrative requirements.
The Winsock Redirection Protocol will handle communication for both client applications (such as web browsers or email client software) and Server applications such as a Web or FTP servers that are running on the WGIC machine. As such, the Winsock Redirector Service will not only fulfill Internet requests for WGIC users, but also listen on behalf of server applications that are running on the WGIC machine (if required). WRP will handle accepting and sending both TCP and UDP connections by Winsock applications installed on the WGIC machine.
Each application running on a WGIC machine can be set to one of three modes which tells the Winsock Redirector Service in WinGate how to handle the application when it makes a request:
When the application has been set to Local mode it will use a method other then Winsock Redirector Service to make the connection e.g. NAT or direct connection.
When an application is set to Mixed mode it will accept server requests from machines on the LAN only, but will be allowed to make requests to the Internet.
When an application is set to global it will accept incoming server requests from both the LAN and the Internet (via the Winsock Redirector service in WinGate) but will not be allowed to make Internet requests.
The WRP mode for each client application can be set on the User Applications and System Applications tabs of the WGIC when it is installed on a users machine.
When installed the Winsock Redirector service will register a number of events with the WinGate Events system. Using a WinGate event processor such as the Policy system allows you to create a policy that will be processed any time these registered events occur. This means that you can use the power of the WinGate Policy system to determine how WinGate will handle these Winsock Redirector events.
Read more about Winsock Redirector events
When creating a policy based on the Winsock Redirector service event ApplicationLoad, WinGate allows you to control and override which WRP mode a client application will operate in through use of the Application Control policy item. This item can be placed in the processing flow of a policy based on this Winsock Redirector service registered event.
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