Black Magic in ISA Server Benchmark Tests
- From: "Thomas W. Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:46:05 -0500
Hey Everyone,
Head on over to the Microsoft ISA Server site at:
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/evaluation/competitive/exodus.asp
Interesting stuff and good stats on throughput and connection rates.
However, there's some pretty funky stuff going down in the testing
methodology:
1. The clients are on the untrusted (external) network.
2. The clients, even though they are on the external network, are using
the Firewall Client ?!?!
3. The servers are all on the internal (trusted network)
4. It doesn't say if they used Server or Web Publishing to make the Web
Servers on the internal network available to the external network
clients
5. Although the clients are using the Firewall client, it doesn't state
if they were Web Proxy clients
6. It doesn't say what mode the ISA Server was running
7. It doesn't say if the clients were configured as Web Proxy clients
8. It doesn't say what the status was of the HTTP Redirector Filter
9. They somehow miraculously have multiple external interfaces working!
10. They don't say if they used interface teaming on the Intel adapters
:-) [maybe that's how they got multiple external interface to work?
11. They mention a problem with the 'client' software not being able to
connect to the Servers because there might have been a problem with
using a HOSTS file rather than DNS. Why didn't they just type in the IP
address of the 'external' interface of the ISA Server and forget about
the overhead of name resolution?
Otherwise, it was a pretty good article :-)
HTH,
Tom
www.isaserver.org/shinder
Thomas W Shinder, M.D., MCSE, MCT
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 6:14 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Re: AD through firewalls
http://www.ISAserver.org
Maybe I wasn't being specific enough; for me it's an OE issue since
that's
what I use for the newsgroups and the lists.
The point is, there's a wrap default to OE and probably other email apps
when using NEWS, POP and SMTP. All you have to do is go look for it.
Jim Harrison
MCP(2K), A+, Network+, PCG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: [isalist] Re: AD through firewalls
http://www.ISAserver.org
It is not an OE issue.
I am using Outlook XP and it still happens. Same as 2k
...Skeeve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:09 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] Re: AD through firewalls
>
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
>
> It's an OE issue; it wraps the line at 76 chars by default.
> I've changed my settings before to 132 chars, but it makes
> the mail almost unreadable to everyone else who wraps their mail.
>
> Jim Harrison
> MCP(2K), A+, Network+, PCG
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Strangways" <strangconst@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:52 AM
> Subject: [isalist] Re: AD through firewalls
>
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
>
> Jim is there a way to keep the URL's together on the page ?
> It seems that long url's as below, will not fit in one line
> and then the url is NFG after that !
>
> Any idea's ?
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:49 PM
> Subject: [isalist] AD through firewalls
>
>
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> >
> >
> > There is an interesting technet article that discusses the
> issues with
> > and options for allowing AD replication though firewalls. It makes
> > for a very interesting read...
> >
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/tec
hnet/ittasks/t
> asks/adrepfir.asp
>
> Jim Harrison
> MCP(2K), A+, Network+, PCG
>
>
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