"Cris Daniluk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not necessarily. These messages contain information on stock portfolios.
>They're consequentially quite large. Plus, a 1k message is easily a 2k
>message after headers.
The assumption was OC-12 and 1k messages. My point was that even at
T3/1k messages, bandwidth wouldn't be the bottleneck. Obviously, if
your messages are larger, your messages rate will decrease. Also, I
specifically stated 3k bandwidth for a 1k message to allow for the
header and SMTP overhead.
>Plus you neglect to consider the time it takes to
>establish the connection, resolve the domains, and have an ident request
>sent (which most SMTP servers appear to do). ...
I didn't neglect to consider latency: it's irrelevant to the question
of bandwidth. 100 messages/second is 100 messages/second, whether each
message takes 1 second from start to finish or a hundred.
-Dave
