I have had a behavior which frankly I cannot explain and perhaps y'all can help. At times there is a slow down when sending email, smtp. The closest I can come to describing it is it is as if I have added QOS where SMTP is rated lower ( not as important) as other services and when those others are active then it may take up to a minute for email to go out. After gathering some facts, it doesn't appear as if this is related to just our "outgoing" server but to any smtp traffic. Now for some items that may help y'all think of why this is happening.
I have not instituted any QOS on this network other than p2p and limiting bandwidth to max 3meg total for a particular IP via simple queues. The various bandwidth (speed) restrictions/packages are handled by another method. I have had one customer, who is somewhat competent on computers and network say it is occurring between his cpe and the AP. I have this happen on my connection to my AP and mine is a dedicated connection meaning I am the only one on that AP. Software, RouterOS is current 3.x, haven't moved it to 4.x. Other traffic appears to be flowing normally which in my case would be items such as voip, video and the other more mundane internet traffic. Any thoughts as to why the slow down on sending emails? Terri Kelley Network Engineer 254-697-6710 This email message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above, and may contain, together with any attachment(s), confidential information that is privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying or distribution of this message and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20091126/d05ab543/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LogoHzlsigtest.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2158 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20091126/d05ab543/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ 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
