[3185] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: General Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dev Kumar Roy)
Thu Oct 10 14:00:05 1996
From: Dev Kumar Roy <devroy@pluto.xko.dec.com>
To: "'bigvern@ozemail.com.au'" <bigvern@ozemail.com.au>,
"'www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
"'ntsecurity@iss.net'" <ntsecurity@iss.net>,
"'rgaloppini@tim.it'" <rgaloppini@tim.it>
Cc: "'www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
"'ntsecurity@iss.net'" <ntsecurity@iss.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:27:10 +0530
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Hi Mike,
Could you send me privately the details of your project(just to avoid
cluttering)as I have not been following the string...as I have
implemented an intranet solution using only MS products and I would
probably be able to give you a reasonable assesment of its capabilities.
Cheers
Dev
>----------
>From: Roberto Galoppini[SMTP:rgaloppini@tim.it]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 1996 1:17 PM
>To: bigvern@ozemail.com.au; www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU;
>ntsecurity@iss.net
>Cc: www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU; ntsecurity@iss.net
>Subject: Re: General Question
>
>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"
>
