Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:19:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs Message-ID: <20080615121650.J53706@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4854be53.J2aivLZw9Ipz30je%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20080614205751.D35816@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080614210137.GB3520@shepherd> <20080614232908.Y51399@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4854be53.J2aivLZw9Ipz30je%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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> > Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other > than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic > to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough > total Internet traffic to be using DSL rather than something > oriented to commercial use (like a T1)? the reason is simple something like "T1" here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. for the same price i can get four "4Mbit/s" ADSL's (which i have now), that actually gives 4Mbit/s download speed, but only 512kbps upload. if you substract ACK's needed for 4Mbit/s download, little is left. my ipfw rules manages all this so web browsing works fine, but mail output is a problem now.
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