On Friday 27 August 2004 17:35, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jerry Amundson writes: > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:44 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Or, it's possible that a fractional T1 between the two offices may > >> be cheaper than a pair of backup low-bandwidth circuits. Except > >> that a backhoe incident in the immediate neighborhood will likely > >> take out both circuits. > > > > I should clarify - it's been mandated that I put a server in the > > remote location... or else we move to Exchange. > > > > Folks in the remote office, about 25 users all using IMAP via > > Outlook 2000, were seeing intermitent response degradation, the > > cause of which I have been unable to pinpoint. The frustration > > level has gotten pretty high there, so it has been decided they get > > their own server. > > Oh, a fractional T1 between the two offices will be immune to the > general hiccups on the Internet. You'll have to get the tricky > routing working, but that's going to be the worst of it.
Both ends have full T1's, with IPsec doing the VPN between us. I've strace'd, tcpdump'd, etc. but it's never been clear what causes the hesitation, and of course it never happens consistently. I've always suspected some kind of Outlook-IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE-famd thing, but have been unable to prove anything. > You can still put a server there, and have both servers cross-mount > each other over NFS. But, essentially, the maildirs of all users need to physically exist on both servers to attain redundancy. The Coda suggestion seems worth looking into, though it may make things more complicated than neccesary. I had also been thinking NFS early on, but over a T1? If I determine T1 bandwidth is adequate, it may simplify things. jerry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
