On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Doug Hughes wrote: > da...@lang.hm wrote: >> 1. For most companies there is a huge amount of sensitive stuff in the >> things that are going to be exposed (even if it's just e-mail) >> >> 2. For most of the things that it makes sense to expose there are good, >> well-tested protocols available to do allow secure access. However >> Microsoft has decided not to support those protocols. Letting them invent >> something new to try and let their existing software tunnel seems wrong. >> >> 3. Microsoft doesn't have a good track record when creating new protocols, >> so I would not want to try and use this until it's been out for a little >> while and people have had a chance to beat on it. >> >> David Lang >> > > Heaven knows I have no desire to be an apologist, but this appears to be > changing. Remember, currently, MS has the best (in terms of complete > feature set, error recover, robustness) ISCSI implementation of all the > major OS vendors right now, including and especially Linux. (I haven't > checked Sol 10 U8 as of this writing)
ISCSI is not a microsoft invented/extended/custom protocol. I think that makes a big difference ;-) David Lang > 2 and 1 are spot-on though. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
