On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dimitri Rodis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), and you
> need to have AD.
>
> I've used it, but only in this particular case. I do not know of anything in
> the open source world that works reliably specifically the way you want it
> to. (That is not to say that nothing exists, I just may not know about it).
> With respect to ISA, there is a client installation (aka Firewall Client)
> that is required to make the authentication transparent--without it, it
> would work just like pfSense would-- with RADIUS against AD, and the user
> would have to enter credentials manually.
>

Not exactly, so long as you're using IE it'll pass through credentials
automatically. The firewall client is so you don't have to configure
all your applications to use a proxy, it automatically picks up any
traffic not destined to your internal networks (as defined in ISA) and
pushes it through the proxy. Works well in the environments I use it.

ISA is a good proxy. I personally don't like it as a perimeter
firewall, and it can be buggy (2006 is much better than 2004 and 2000,
though still quirky at times), but its proxy functionality in a
Windows environment is great. The reverse proxy is also nice if you
use OWA and/or OMA with Exchange.

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