Re: Windows 2003 Server limitation

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 10/02/04


Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:17:30 +0800

Hmm.. I would suggest you post your finding here
and I'm sure Alun will figure something out.

-- 
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
"Serverdude" <Serverdude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9BCACF70-1029-4FAB-A067-5B8D32EDA17F@microsoft.com...
> Regarding 2, we've gone above and beyond normal and have proven that it is
> IIS's FTP, not network connections, not client that dropped data.  We've
> analyzed ftp packets, 3 ways TCP hand shake between servers and clients,
and
> know who did what.  MS tech support did not dispute our findings.
>
>
> "Bernard" wrote:
>
> > 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
> > http://www.tryiis.com/
> > http://support.microsoft.com/
> > http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
> >
> >
> >
> > "Serverdude" <Serverdude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E63C6C35-906C-4EDA-99D0-2467B8141372@microsoft.com...
> > > 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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