Roger Svenning writes:
> > Anyone have some advice on how to limit the bandwidth usage for qmail ?
> >
> > We have a mail/web server sitting on a 2mbit and several times a week we
> > need to push out 30000+ mails and don't want this to totally block the web
> > traffic to the same server.
You don't understand how TCP/IP works. A sustained load through a
network doesn't cause anybody to be blocked. It causes their
transfers to slow down. TCP/IP interprets a lossy connection as an
overloaded connection. That's why your IP connection must only lose
packets when it is congested.
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