The simple queue is going to catching anything that the mangle rule shows, which is dst-port x.x.x.x:25. When you say the torch is showing 1-2 megs what all traffic is it showing? Does this include src-port since your SMTP server is sending many messages?
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Eric Sooter <e...@junct.com> wrote: > Our bandwidth is getting a bit tight. I was hoping to be able to shape > our inbound SMTP traffic to our mail server. Sometimes, it can consume a > big chunk of bandwidth. I am using a few mangle rules and a simple queue to > shape. Unfortunately, the simple queue never shows very much traffic. > Whereas torch will show around 1-2mb/s of traffic. Here is the export: > > x.x.x.35 is mail server > the mangle rules are also at top of mangle chain > there are no queue trees > > > /ip firewall mangle > add action=mark-connection chain=forward comment="Inbound SMTP Conn Mangle" > \ > disabled=no dst-address=x.x.x.35 dst-port=25 new-connection-mark=\ > inbound-smtp-conn passthrough=no protocol=tcp > add action=mark-packet chain=forward comment="" connection-mark=\ > inbound-smtp-conn disabled=no new-packet-mark=inbound-smtp-packet \ > passthrough=no > > > /queue simple > add burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s comment="" \ > direction=both disabled=no dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all > limit-at=\ > 0/0 max-limit=512000/512000 name=inbound-smtp-queue packet-marks=\ > inbound-smtp-packet parent=none priority=8 queue=\ > default-small/default-small total-queue=default-small > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20090224/9b7217e6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
