Greetings!
"SERCONI, Miguel Hernández" schrieb:
> Hello everyone. I´m more or less new in firewalls. Can anyone tell me why
> nobody in this list use Microsoft Proxy Server.
As firewall? Because it is - as the name says - just a proxy.
As proxy? Because there are better solutions in many cases.
MS-Proxy consists of two components: the Socks-Proxy which can be mis-used as
kind-of firewall thingy, and the HTTP proxy. The latter only is a plugin
("cgi-bin") into the MS-IIS. So you have all the IIS-related problems, less
stability (esp. under high network loads) and worse scalability compared to a
number of competitors (esp. Squid on Solaris, Linux or *BSD). The (depending on
opinion: only/major) advantage of the MS-Proxy for all-Microsoft shops: you can
use the user-transparent NTLM authentication to restrict web surfing (with IE)
via the proxy.
Bye
Volker
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DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions
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