Hi all, I'm having the following problem and am not sure where to go to find some information on this. My regular job is a developer, but our Sys Admin has left so I have to be a stop gap for the time being.
The problem I'm having is that we have 2 Solaris servers acting as outgoing mail servers using sendmail, then we have a Windows NT box acting as an incoming mail server and viruswall. The problem we get is when one of our applications tries to send a large amount of mail to internal accounts. It overloads the NT box which then returns a 421 error and delays the mail for up to 4 hours. This only happens with our own mail, and I think it might be because the mail is internal so has more bandwidth than you'd have going over the internet. What I was wondering is if there is a way to throttle the SMTP bandwidth to our internal server from the Solaris servers so that it doesn't get overloaded. I found this item which looks like it is supposed to do what I'm looking for in linux: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.ratelimit.single.html But I'm not sure if the same commands will port to Solaris? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kevin This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
