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- Infopulse Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper 4.5 proxy server firewall
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- (c) 1998,1999,2000,2001 Infopulse. All rights reserved.
-
- Updates to this software will be posted on the Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper
- software website:
- http://www.proxy-pro.com/professional
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- CONTENTS
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-
- - Overview
- - Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper 4.5 - Package contents
- - Requirements
- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.5 - Features
- - Configuring Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.5
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- Overview
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper
-
- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper is the perfect solution for anyone seeking to
- share, secure and boost Internet access with other computers in almost any environment
- - from a private home or small office sharing a single dial-up connection to a
- large and complex network sharing an ISDN or leased line.
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- Proxy Server Firewall - allows your entire computer network to share a single
- Internet connection while securing and improving the speed of Internet access.
- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper eliminates the need to get a separate dial-up
- account, with a phone line and modem for each user who wants access to the Internet.
- Provides comprehensive, detailed statistics and offers access restrictions
- for each one of your users accessing the web.
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- Easy to install and configure - your best choice for a reliable and affordable proxy server.
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper consists of a server component - to be installed
- on the gateway computer and a client component - installed on the workstations
- from your LAN. Requires a TCP/IP network; the server component must be
- installed on a Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT/2000 OS based computer.
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper Package contents
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper Runtime
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-
- - Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper Server Component:
- The main part of the software - connects your workstations to the
- Internet.
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- Windows 95/98/Me: installed as a simple application and
- shown in the System tray.
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- Windows NT/2000/XP installed as a service.
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper tools
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- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Configuration Wizard
- Helps the administrator to easily add new proxies. It can be used only
- on the gateway computer where the proxy server is installed.
-
- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Client Configuration Wizard
- Used to automatically configure the client applications (browsers,
- IRC clients, ftp clients etc.) on your workstations.
-
- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Configuration
- Helps the administrator to: introduce/change the Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper
- license key; set the port where the Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Configuration
- Pages can be accessed; save, load and restore the Proxy-Pro GateKeeper
- configuration settings; delete the incoming rules etc. It can be used only
- on the gateway computer where the proxy server is installed.
-
- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Access
- To be installed on every computer in the LAN only if the
- administrator is willing to track the Internet Access by user basis.
- The user must fill in his user identifier and password before
- being able to use Proxy-Pro GateKeeper.
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- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Redirector Service Beta
- A client component that works with Proxy-Pro GateKeeper SOCKS proxy server.
- GateKeeper Redirector can be used with applications that donÆt support proxy protocols.
- Such applications are NetMeeting, almost all Games, Web Games based on Java Applets.
- We strongly suggest using this component only with applications that donÆt offer proxy
- support. Other applications like web browsers, FTP clients and Chat clients usually offer
- proxy support so you can configure them to use the Proxy-Pro GateKeeper protocols.
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper documentation
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-
- - Proxy-Pro GateKeeper User Guide
- Describes Proxy-Pro GateKeeper installation, configuration,
- and client application setup procedures.
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- Requirements
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- Gateway Computer soft/hardware configuration:
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- Operating systems:
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- A. Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4
- OR
- B. Windows 2000
- OR
- C. Windows XP
- OR
- D. Windows 95
- OR
- E. Windows 98
- OR
- F. Windows Me
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- Browsers:
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- To access Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper 4.5 configuration pages you have to have installed
- one the browsers listed bellow:
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- - Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later
-
- OR
-
- - Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
-
- Requirements for installation of Visual Basic Scripting
- engine used in Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper configuration pages:
-
- - Internet Explorer 4.0 Service Pack 1 or later installed on the Gateway Computer
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper 4.5 - Features
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- 1. Generic web proxy - HTTP 1.1
- - The new HTTP 1.1 proxy allows you to use it for surfing on the web, http,
- ftp, ssl sites with any browser, as well other web-clients ( you can use chat
- clients, that support HTTP tunnelling, as well you can listen to radio stations
- using Windows Media player)
-
- 2. New Cache module
- - The new cache module allows you to have a local copy of the sites, your users
- have visited. This is useful to save traffic, since when you visit a site, that is
- already cached, then you won't have to download it again, but it will be served to
- you from the local cache.
-
- 3. New IMAP4 proxy
- - This new proxy is for email clients - you can now access professional mail accounts,
- that support IMAP where you can organize your mails into folders
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- 4. Secured mail proxies
- - The POP3, SMTP, and IMAP4 proxies now support the following secure authentication schemes:
- NTLM, CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN, OTP and SKEY.
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- 5. Online Access Time module
- - With this new module you can set rules which user how many time can stay online connected to
- the Internet, as well you can configure cost for any time period of the day to see, how much
- costs a user generates, using the Internet. You can view the costs and the Internet usage
- for any time period for a day up to a year.
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- 6. New logging module
- - Firewall reporting : any attempt to access your Gatekeeper is logged separately
- - Breaking rule attempts : any attempt to break the rules you set up is logged separately
- - Administrative logging : any changes made on the configuration pages by an administrator is
- logged separately
-
- You have an option on the Configuration pages to delete the log files with just one click.
-
- 7. Advanced site rules
- - You can specify now when a site-rule should be apply. For example, a user can visit only some
- web-sites during the work-time, but any site after that.
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- 8. DNS binding
- - The binding feature is now implemented for the DNS server of the GateKeeper too.
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- 9. Full SMTP proxy
- - Now you have a full SMTP proxy, you can use for multiple mail accounts.
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- 10. GateKeeper Access Control enhancements
- - The Client Configuration Wizard is now incorporated in the GKAccess, which has now also the
- ability to find the GateKeeper servers installed on your network.
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- Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper 4.3 - Features
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- 1. New Rule
- - MIME type filtering.
- With this rule you can restrict the types of the resources a user can
- access through Proxy-Pro Professional GateKeeper (applications, zip,
- audio, video, image, text)
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- Fixed Bugs in Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.2
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- - Fixed bug in RAS Dialer
- - Client Configuration Wizard extended to configure IE6 to use SSL
- - Improved security functionalities
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.2 - Features
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- 1. Parental Control (Content Filtering)
- - You can set up a specific "Restrictive HTTP" proxy, which can act as a parental control
- tool. You can set a list of words (ex. xxx, porn, etc.), which cannot appear in the content
- of the pages, a user wants to access. So the access to every page which contain these words,
- will be denied.
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- 2. RTSP Proxy
- - A new Proxy for Real Time Streaming Protocol, to access real-media resources on the web.
- You need this proxy if you want to use RealPlayer from behind GateKeeper.
-
- 3. Binding - increased security
- - If you have more than one network card, you can set all of your proxies, to listen only
- on specific interfaces. In this way all attempts to connect to your proxies from unauthorized
- addresses, will fail - if you set your proxies to listen on the LAN interface, for the Internet
- it won't be visible, that you are running a proxy-server.
- Note: - during the setup process all proxies will be set to listen on all interfaces. Make
- sure, you change this unless you want access your proxies from the internet too.
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- 4. Enhancements:
- - FTP proxy - supports active and passive file transfer.
- - Ip Logs and Auditing - you can sort the statistics by URL, hits, or download-size.
- - Statistics - the remote host name is displayed as in the request, not just the IP address.
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- Fixed Bugs in Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.0
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- - Fixed bug in POP3 - kick dialer
- - Fixed bug in RAS account encryption
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.0 - Features
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- 1. Schedule service
- With this feature, the user doesnÆt has to be logged in to the GateKeeper service,
- still he can use this service to download files through HTTP or FTP, even more,
- he can specify a time schedule for the tasks, stop and/or resume them when he/she wants.
-
- 2. New GateKeeper Rules
- - Maximum number of users
- With this rule it can be specified how many concurrent users can
- use the GateKeeper proxy server. (the number must be less or equal to that
- specified by the type of license key).
- - Connecting time access limitation
- It can be specified the maximum time (in minutes, hours and days)
- a user can be connected to GateKeeper.
- - Maximum number of connection
- - Global rules for All protocols
- Starting with this version you can specify global rules for all protocols
- besides the rules set for each protocol.
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- Fixed Bugs in Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.7
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- - Fixed bug in HTTP - 'Unable read data from server'
- - Fixed bug in HTTP - in the FTP part
- - Fixed bug in FTP - connecting to different port numbers than 21
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.7 - Features
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- 1. HTTP Authorization
-
- Suppose your Proxy-Pro GateKeeper is chained with another proxy, located at your ISP.
- The proxy server located at your ISP requires authentication (user identifier
- and password) for every request. By using the standard version of our
- HTTP proxy you will be asked about the user id and password for every html page
- you will want to see on your browser. To get rid off this annoying problem you
- should simply check the Enable_Proxy_Authorization checkbox and the Proxy-Pro
- GateKeeper HTTP proxy will do that (entering user and password) for you.
- As you can see the HTTP proxy authorization makes sense only when the HTTP proxy
- has the Forwarding option checked.
-
- 2. GateWay Computer name on the error page
-
- The GateWay name (the name of the computer where Proxy-Pro GateKeeper was installed)
- appears on the error page like a link to the GateKeeper configuration pages.
-
- 3. Turning on/off the DNS service logging
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.6 - Features
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- 1. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) proxy
- The SSL proxy allows applications from your LAN workstations to provide a secure
- connection as if they were directly connected to the Internet.
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- 2. Skin support for Proxy-Pro GateKeeper
- You can now change the look and feel of the GateKeeper configuration pages.
-
- 3. New Skin (GKEyes)
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- 4. New properties for the proxies: timeout, proxy description
- With this new properties you can set the number of seconds to wait before closing
- the connection if there is no activity, respectively a short description about the proxy.
-
- 5. The Proxy-Pro GateKeeper Clients Configuration Wizard supports new client applications
- This wizard allows you to configure 13 clients in just a few seconds with just a few
- mouse clicks. This wizard supports new client programs like Yahoo! Messenger,
- MSN Messenger, Getright, Go!Zilla, Teleport Pro.
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- 6. Tele & video conferencing by supporting NetMeeting software
- Proxy-Pro Gatekeeper Redirector Service is a client component, which allows you to use programs
- that donÆt offer proxy support as if they are directly connected to Internet.
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- Fixed Bugs in Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.5
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- - Fixed bug in MappedPort. Now it works with ICQ.
- - Fixed bug in SOCKS4. Now it works with ICQ.
- - Fixed a bug in DNS, which was responsible for many GateKeeper crashes.
- - Fixed bugs with the HTTPS protocol. The next version will add a new SSL proxy,
- which will take the workload from the HTTP proxy. Until then, if you have
- problems with HTTPS web sites, you can use the SOCKS proxy.
- - Fixed bugs with Outgoing Rules.
- - Fixed Y2K bug in the Event logs view.
- - Fixed bug in GKAccess: users remaining online after a system crash.
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.5 - Features
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- 1. Support for NT domain accounts (Only on Windows NT)
- you can now import the NT domain accounts at setup. Also there are new rules for
- domain NT accounts in the Accounts configuration page.
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- 2. Automatic logging on Proxy-Pro GateKeeper, NT domain authentication and
- autoconnect feature in GKAccess.
- See User Guide on how to use NT domain authentication on Windows95/98.
-
- 3. Added ping command towards GKAccess program to avoid the situations when
- GKAccess cannot connect to server because of the error:
- "There is already an active session from this IP address"
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- 4. You can deny hostnames in the Outgoing rules
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- 5. Software Development Kit (SDK) for Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.5
- An API is provided with GateKeeper SDK, permitting users to write their own proxies.
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- 6. Wizard in the SDK for Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.5. This wizard helps you create a skeleton
- proxy with basic implementation. The proxy can inherit the implementation of an
- existing Proxy-Pro GateKeeper proxy or it can be a totally new protocol which is not
- implemented in Proxy-Pro GateKeeper.
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- Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 3.0 - Features
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- 1. DHCP Server
-
- For TCP/IP to work on your computer you must assign an IP address, specify the
- subnet mask, and the default gateway for each network adapter installed on the
- computer. TCP/IP can be configured in one of two ways: - automatically, if
- there is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on your intranet,
- - manually, if there is no DHCP server. Use the DHCP server to support
- automatic configuration and addressing for computers using TCP/IP on
- your Intranet.
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- 2. HTTP Cache
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- A copy of the pages you are visiting along with any resources contained inside
- it is saved in the cache. The next time you want to visit the same pages the
- locally saved ones are given to your browser. In this way you speed up browsing
- and minimize the amount that needs to be downloaded through your modem/ISDN
- connection. All pages have a time-to-live (TTL) period. After the TTL time
- expires and you access the page again, it is checked against the version that
- is available on the original site. If a newer version is available, it is
- downloaded and saved over the older version and given to the browser. Otherwise
- the local copy is given to the browser.
-
- 3. SOCKS Proxy
-
- The SOCKS proxy allows any SOCKS 4/SOCKS 5 compatible client to access the
- Internet as if the client was directly connected to the Internet. To use
- SOCKS 4/SOCKS 5, you must have DNS available on your LAN.
-
- 4. User & Group Management
-
- Permits the creation of users and groups and their management.
-
- 5. User level access control
-
- With user level access control, you can specify rules and policies for
- specific users.
-
- 6. Customisable GateKeeper configuration pages
-
- For configuration pages, GateKeeper uses AGP (Active GateKeeper Pages) files
- that are similar to the ASP files. These files contain HTML tags and VB Script
- code. The files are parsed and executed with the help of a VB Scripting engine
- and the resulting HTML file is given to the browser. By modifying these AGP
- files you can modify the look and functionality of the configuration pages that
- are delivered to the browser.
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- Configuring Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.5
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- 1. After installing Proxy-Pro GateKeeper 4.5 on your gateway computer you
- can start the configuration process using your prefered browser.
- Important: Please check that your browser is configured to use HTTP 1.1 throught proxy connections
- and the 'Bypass proxy server for local addresses' checkbox is selected.
-
- 2. Go to the Start menu and open: Programs->GateKeeper 4.5->Administration->
- Login and administration. This will launch GateKeeper Access client program.
- For the first time, you don't have to specify a password.
-
- The password for the 'Administrator' account is void when accessing the
- Configuration pages for the first time.
- Fill in the name of the computer ( GATEWAY for example ) and press the
- 'Connect' button. Following this, your default browser will be launched and you will be
- connected to the Proxy-Pro GateKeeper administration pages.
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