Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet are made by people that
don't understand the basics of tcp/ip ? :-)
I didn't mean "blocked" literally, what I want is to make sure that smtp
traffic, when qmail gets several thousand of mails dumped into it's queue,
doesn't slow down http traffic too much, by putting some sort of a limit on
qmail I want to avoid packetloss.
-Roger
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Fra: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sendt: 31. mai 2001 22:25
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Emne: Re: Limiting bandwidth usage
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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