also sprach nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> [2003.03.10.2308 +0100]: > your question does not make much sense. Are you saying that your > mail server is eating all of your bandwidth? how do you know this? > Unless your sending thousands of messages, or very large ones, SMTP > takes up hardly any bandwidth, it's barely measurable on my network > which recieves about 25,000 messages/week. At the moment I am averaging > about 8 bits per second(not bytes, bits) of SMTP traffic, or 1 byte > of SMTP traffic per second. Assuming my freebsd firewall accounting > is working properly... if you send a 10Mb file over a 128kbit uplink, postfix will do its best to deliver it the fastest possible way and indeed, it will eat up the bandwidth. GBV: do you have a linux router between you and the provider link? if not, that should help as linux routing is already pretty good with respect to QoS even without QoS. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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