Re: Windows 2003 Server limitation

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 10/01/04

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    Wow. I haven't heard about the 1).
    for 2) I have seen some previous posting, but there are just too many
    posibilities. e.g. connection, client software and etc.

    as for IIS 6.0, I have no idea. just wait for the 'F' guy in the IIS to give
    us the answer :) 

    -- 
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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http://support.microsoft.com/
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"Serverdude" <Serverdude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Our ftp servers are hit heavily by the our user community.  When we used
IIS
> 4 (NT4) and IIS5 (Windows 2000), we ran into the limitation of 100 current
> connections on these servers.  We only learned of this after seeing
failures
> then troubleshot and consulted for many weeks with going up the chain in
> Microsoft technical support.  We faced 2 issues when the limit is:  1) The
> 100 concurrent connection is the limit!
> 2) Instead of rejecting user connection, these FTP servers simply just
> dropped the data without any kind of notification!
>
> Our network engineers had to pull some Unix magic to capture the data 7x24
> and still do, so that we can capture all data to ensure nothing is lost
> whenever IIS FTP reached its limit.  We faced rath from all sides
> (management, customers, bruised professional pride, etc.) because of this.
>
> Does anyone know if these (1 and 2 above BOTH) are still  problems with
the
> IIS that comes with Windows 2003 server (IIS6).   There are still legacy
> advantages for us to use windows FTP, but it's getting hard to justify
when
> the linux ftp servers didn't even break a sweat in a similar environment
at
> our company.  There is a heavy push here by several groups to go to Linux.
> We need to make a decision by mid next week.
>
> Thanks
>
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