It also act as a router for the application level protocol exchange and provides the features the network address translation by hiding details of the internal network. A typical proxy server provides the following features.
There are lot of proxy software and some of the most common are mentioned below.
Wingate
It is an integrated internet gateway and communication server that is used to provide the internet access to the multiple computers in a network. It will let you manage the internet access for your home, office or enterprise business. It has built-in NAT, DHCP, full email server, content filtering, antivirus scanning, antivirus, bandwidth control, support for the terminal server and the Active directory, remote gateway monitoring and the DMZ support.
Winproxy
Winproxy is proxy software that connects your entire network with the internet through a single IP address. It has built-in firewall and the integrated mail server for the Windows 95/98/2000/XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. The latest security release provides the protection against the mail server abuse. It has improved cache performance, firewall, IP blocking, content filtering, web caching, security zones and support for the multiple features and services like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DHCP and others.
Microsoft ISA Server
ISA stands for Internet Security and Acceleration server. It is an integrated edge security gateway that provides high speed internet access to the network computers through a single IP address. It provides the secure remote access to the internal Microsoft resource. It provides the easy user authentication and management, advanced firewall protection features, virtual private networking and high performance.
Proxy+ 3.0
Proxy+ runs on the workstation and server computers. It acts as proxy server, firewall and a mail server. It has been designed to provide the secure internet access tot eh LAN computers. It has the ability to authenticate the users in the Web browsers, it has SMTP mail server, socks server and proxy cascading.
Proxy Pro Professional Gatekeeper
Proxy Pro Professional Gatekeeper is proxy server software that allows you to secure, share and accelerate internet connection with other computers in your network. It provides the complete internet sharing solutions to the home and corporate users. It supports HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SMTP, POP3, Real audio, SSL, Socks5 and mapped port. It has built-in firewall.