[nylug-talk] Linux alternative to ISA server

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Peter C. Norton escribió:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:48:07PM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Miguel Gonzalez Casta?os wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> How can I quantify this? Any tool that could help me to analyze it?
>>>       
>> ummm...
>>
>> <rant>
>>
>> I'm going to go wildly off-tangent and rant about people doing work they
>> are obviously unqualified for. It is one thing to ask for advice on the
>> mailing list. It is another thing to be paid to do a job, while having no
>> understanding of basic concepts. I don't expect everyone to know
>> everything. However, if you are suggesting to replace Windows VPN server
>> with a linux one because it is 'slow', without really understanding what
>> 'slow' is, I will take an issue. Spot decisions like these do not bring
>> credit to the community as a whole. When we laugh at managers for not
>> understanding technology it is one thing - but if someone on the 
>> technology side doesn't understand technology, it is a different thing 
>> altogether. Whether they are on the same side of the fence as I am is 
>> irrelevant.
>>
>> </rant>
>>     
>
> Alex,
>
> You're being kind of a dick (though I detect some moderation that you
> don't always have. Good work on thtat!). You are lashing out at
> someone asking for advice, without knowing whether or not this
> situation is of his making. There are, anyway, better ways of saying
> this than going on a tear and ranting to the world.
>
> New Rule: If Alex or others Rant *at someone* prematurely, they buy a
> beer (age appropriately - maybe a soda) for the rantee. I see this
> working like this:
>
> Ranter and rantee must talk, and if they agree that the rant is
> inappropriate, the Rantee can hit up the ranter for a beer at the next
> meeting they're both at. 6 month expiration period.
>
> So, Alex, you owe Miguel a beer if he can show that this isn't a
> problem of his making (eg. his boss said "get a new vpn", or he's
> already got a good reason for thinking that the VPN gateway is the
> problem, or he's just learning and didn't ask the questions in the
> order you like).
>   
I hold myself not to reply :). The VPN was configured before I arrived 
and It wasn't a secret for my company that I have far more experience 
with Linux than with Windows. My boss has claimed that the
machine has some throughput issues but he didn't specified them clearly.

I have checked myself the performance of the machine and the CPU 
normally is at 8% of use and the RAM at 1.34 Gb (of 2 Gb). I have seen 
some peaks in the CPU, but I don't know very much about tools in Windows 
to get a better picture of this.

Actually I have to make a planning on disk to disk backups so I'm plenty 
of work for the next months, but I will probably have to think (and 
prove) that our server running ISA could be better using an open source 
tool. I want to use load balance too.

Anyway, send me the beer to DC :)

Miguel