[3157] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: General Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roberto Galoppini)
Tue Oct 8 07:08:22 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 10:24:45 +0200
From: Roberto Galoppini <rgaloppini@tim.it>
Reply-To: rgaloppini@tim.it
To: bigvern@ozemail.com.au, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Mike Earnshaw wrote:
<snip>
> 2. I have been tasked with setting up our companies Intranet/Internet
> connection, whilst I am fairly confident with Windows NT, I know very
> little about WWW Security. Bearing in mind point one above, what
> considerations should I bear in mind when connecting our Intranet to the
> Internet with NT v4.0 ( is v3.51 better ?) and Catapult.
Mhh.. NT v4.0 is that MICROSOFT product that allows UP TO TEN
connections, isn't it? Why don't you have a look at the "MS NT
Workstation 4.0 License Maintains Socket Limitation" by Tim O'Reilly
(http://software.ora.com/news/msnt40_limit.html).
> 3. Regrettfully due to some clause somewhere, we have to primarily use MS
> products, but if anyone can help with points of view for or against, and if
> against some alternatives, to NT & Catapult - it would greatly improve my
> chances of swaying the MD !!.
To be honest I would ask you for a good point to use MS products, anyway
the article above speak by itself and more, why don't you get a chance
to setup Apache (freeware) on Linux (freeware) and enjoy yourself ?
I'm sure it helps ;-)
Roberto Galoppini
rgaloppini@tim.it
"Even paranoids have enemies"
