Re: IIS 6.0 Clustering vs. NLB

Come on..., Do you think I am a new comer to this business?
Do you know what is IPSec with certificates?
Do you know that the FTP traffic was encrypted between any host and the
requestor (mainframe)?
Do you know that FTP inbond traffic was only allowed to the Sourcfe IP from
the mainframe?
Do you know that the corporate IDS sensors were prepared to detect and react
with coutermeasures any undesired FTP traffic?
.....

It was only out of discussion because you let it be. This is where we
disagree. The customer is not always right in my opinion.
But in this case I did not see any problem at all. They treated all vendors
(IBM , SUN, HP, Fujistsu) with the same rules. Microsoft was not going to be
the exception.


"Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ramon Jiménez [MVP]" <rjimenezm_en hotmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am sorry that you have such a differing opinion. I strongly believe in
going the extra mile to not only help my customer meet their business
requirements, I also help them to define those requirements when there
appear to be problems with them.

In my eyes, I provided to the customer a transparent migration from 400
OS/2 Server to Windows 2000. Also, I provided HA to critical services.
They requested FTP in the servers. It is their requirement and I do not
see a problem.

I would have right there. Security best practices should have made you
perk your head up on that one. FTP is a problem child when it comes to
security.

They had more than 4000 servers (Mainframes, Unix, OS/2, other) using
this operational procedures and it was up to them to decide and force to
any vendor to provide the service they requested.
Honestly, I still do not understand your concerns.

See above. FTP on each and every server is a big time no-no when it comes
to security.

I look at my sales and consulting engagements as educational
opportunities and often ask the question, "If I could show you a better
way to do that, would you be interested in hearing about it and
discussing it?"

Agree. But it was out of discussion doing so in the moment of presenting
proposals and implem,enting the project

It was only out of discussion because you let it be. This is where we
disagree. The customer is not always right in my opinion. The customer
needs to be guided and helped. If they knew what they were doing, you
wouldn't have been there to begin with.

Microsoft Services Spain does think like you.

I take that as a compliment.

--
Russ Kaufmann
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
ClusterHelp.com, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner
Web http://www.clusterhelp.com
Blog http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp




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