Wingate client in Gentoo? alternatives?

[cggiriraj]

Hi gentoos,
After shifting to gentoo, I am learning more daily! I am here with a problem now
I am behind a proxy which is a WINGATE proxy. It runns something like this in windows. They provide a client software and if installed on a windows machine, we need not set proxy addresses in each application. according to its docs, the server runs on port 2080.

But in Linux, I dont have any equivalent software. So, I am setting the proxy values in every app and running it. But to the surprise, the port number I should specify there is not 2080 but 80! When I specify it as 2080, it is unreachable by all browsers and email clients!

I wud have been happy with this, but the problem comes when I am not able to use wonder tools of newsgroups and email clients with these settings! Morover, Ximian doesnt provide a facility to add my proxy configs! Did any one of you had similar problems? How the hell we can come over Wingate? God damn! I can change this software as, my neigbour runs it and he is in no mood to shift to linux or buy friendlier Winproxy!


Please help me over,

gruß,
giri

[NeddySeagoon]

gruß,

Port 2080 is probably where WinGate listens for connections from a web browser that is being used to administer it remotely. Their website appears to be broken so I can't check.

type http://<ipaddress of wingate>:2080 into your browser and see what happens.

It looks like WinGate is operating as a transparent web proxy for you if it proxies web traffic on port 80.

Different services run on different ports.

You will find a list of 'well known ports' in /etc/services, from this you will see that telnet is on port 23, ssh on port 22, smtp on port 25, pop3 on port 110 and nntp on port 119.

Hopefully, WinGate is set up to allow these ports through, just like port 80 for the www.

In your email and news clients, you can force these ports by adding :<portnumber> to the server names in the setup, but they really should be the defaults.

If WinGate is redirecting these services to other ports, you need to find out the port numbers and use them instead.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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