Bandwidth Limiting with ipfw and WEBServices/MailServices
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sat Jan 3 08:39:08 PST 2004
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> First,Does bandwith limiting affect high loaded MailServers and Web
> Servers?! Because I know if I set bandwith limit I have to set queue at this
> moment some queue delay can be occur ?!
Bandwidth limiting affects busy network services, certainly. If you want to
adjust the queue length, you should consider the available bandwidth divided
by the MTU (gives units of packets over time).
> I think that mail server can handle it because SMTP will work under slow
> link. Does this limitation suitable for Web Server ( http protocol ) ?!!
This will work with HTTP, yes.
--
-Chuck
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