Re: Microsoft proxy as a FW

["Rodney van den Oever" <roever () nse simac nl>]

> Jeez... the whitepapers should be just about enough.  The ONLY time I
> would use MS Proxy is either for someone wanting to be able to proxy all
> their clients through their cable modem at home and the lack knowledge
> with Linux, or if is a small client (50 users or less) that again has not
> linux knowledge.  Although it is not a great solution from a scalability
> perspective (in fact, the word that comes to mind is "crap") it is


Spelling mistake: Microsoft's hierarchical caching protocol is called CARP
:-).

> arguabley secure.  I would check the ntsecurity newsgroup for the positive
> picture of MS Proxy.  To get other views, check out networkcomputing.com
> (and I believe data.com just did a review of some firewalls, but MS Proxy
> did not make the list of FW's to test).


It did in their previous big test.

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