You might like this one > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew S. Hallacy [SMTP:poptix at techmonkeys.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:14 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] OT: MS Proxy Server needed > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Duncan Shannon wrote: > > Hello all- > > [snip] > > > > > If anyone has MS proxy experience, MS proxy setup that i can plug my > > device into or any input it would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Also, im very curious to know your thoughts on what % of business > > networks use proxies, and how they would break down by product. ie. > > are 60% of networks using proxies? are they mostly MS Proxy? > > Ahh, the joys of MS Proxy... > > Once there was a small company that ran nothing but MS products, including > MS Proxy. One day they decided to upgrade from ISDN to high speed > internet, > including publicly routed IP space for a few systems that they wanted to > setup as web and ftp servers. After many hours of hard work, they finally > got Linux installed on an older system, and intended to use it as a router > +nat+squid proxy for their network, so they could retire the MS Proxy > server. > (This took much convincing) > > When the time came to move the ethernet cable from the MS Proxy server to > the Linux system, a horrible thing happened -- nobody could reach the > internet! > > Screaming and preaching of the glory of MS was heard from afar, especially > after we had turned off the MS Proxy settings on every single desktop. > > After many hours of fiddling, it was found that you had to completely > uninstall the MS Proxy client before the systems were usable on anything > else (alas, the zealots were not happy with this, and proclaimed it must > be > a bug elsewhere). > > After cleaning the virulent MS Proxy client from their systems, there was > great rejoicing at the speed and efficiency of Linux and squid, and never > again was there heard a complaint (until a tornado ripped their building > apart last month) > > Moral of the story: > MS Proxy is an evil, evil program that I've only encountered once in > the corporate environment, it follows no standards, and there is no > interoperability documentation. Don't bother. > > > thanks > > duncan > > -- > Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified > http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list