What kind of server are you running that on? Dual proc/quad proc? RAM? I
was told the typical limitation to a single MS proxy server is something
around 300 concurrent connections. Do you feel this is relatively
accurate?
Carric Dooley
COM2:Interactive Media
http://www.com2usa.com
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We use MS Proxy for around 600 clients. It has been for the most part,
> reliable. The problems we have run into have been with Windows NT. The proxy
> cache will occasionally crash one of the servers. Other than that it has some
> nice features including the ability to block web sites (which we don't currently
> use) and some other nice security features (only allow private IP address
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> One piece of advice: If you do implement a MS Proxy server, I would recommend
> implementing a fully redundant system due to NT problems. You can also use this
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> I am looking for some opinions on 3 different proxy servers. After doing
> some research, I will be evaluating MS Proxy, Netscape Proxy, and CSM
> Proxy. Right now I am favoring CSM (in spite of the fact I had never
> heard of it until recently). I have used MS Proxy quite a bit, but I am
> not realy keen on it from a stability prespective. I have some
> familirity with Netscape Proxy, but I wanted to see what everyone else
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> I will be using the http Proxy portion of the proxy servers almost
> exclusively. I will be putting them behind a firewall. I am planning to
> set it up so that only the http proxy can request outbound connections to
> port 80 so users will have to use the proxy to surf the web. This will
> allow me to use proxy authentication based on the NT SAM so I can generate
> reports based on user ID instead of IP since we are using DHCP. I am
> also looking to reclaim some bandwidth on my T1 via the local
> cacheing the proxy servers can provide. At one site I have setup, we
> were cacheing about 70% of our http traffic which helped out tremendously.
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Carric Dooley
> COM2:Interactive Media
> http://www.com2usa.com
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