Searching for a web gateway server

I needed something to turn imminent doom into a proper gateway. I tried a lot of things. The first few are very lightweight systems with simple configuration. Work as a dream if you don’t do a lot of online gaming. They fall a bit short if you play games on a lot of servers as they expect you to set port mappings for any server. From Comsocks up the systems are more sophisticated, supposed to offer full NAT (usually installing a service at the network level), advanced security features etc. Some offer cool features like connection pooling and downlad manager etc. You really have to try a few and see which ones has all the features you want and works in a way that is easy and intuitive to you.

Read More...