RideWay Overview
By technical definition, RideWay is a proxy server application. A proxy server gathers all Internet requests and forwards them out to Internet servers. In turn, the proxy server delivers the reponses or reply from the server on the Internet to the user who originally sent the request. Many proxy servers use a protocol called SOCKS to facilitate the requests coming from network users. In particular, RideWay has a SOCKS4 Server to communicate with the SOCKS 4 Clients that are embedded in Microsoft and Netscape Browsers. If an application is NOT SOCKS compliant, then it will not work directly with RideWay. If a user wishes to use a NON-SOCKS compliant application from a client PC, then they can use BreezeWay inside of RideWay to handle the requests from that application. BreezeWay is a collection of non-SOCKS proxy servers that handles most Internet applications from a client PC.
RideWay can also be used as a security firewall to restrict and/or monitor which Internet sites are being accessed by your LAN. RideWay can protect vital information from being accessed by unauthorized outsiders. RideWay can be used as a remote access solution for users seeking to use a company’s Internet connection from home or some other remote location.
TCP/IP, or "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol", is the
protocol used by the Internet. It can also be used by private networks.
If you have a LAN, each PC must have TCP/IP stack software that will need
to be configured. If you have Windows 95/98 or Windows NT, TCP/IP comes with
the system. If one of your client PCs is a Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups
(Windows 3.11), Macintosh, or UNIX, then you will need to obatin TCP/IP
stack software for that operating system. In the RideWay Setup and configuration
instructions, there are step-by-step instructions on how to configure TCP/IP
for your LAN.