Friends,
I'm looking to resolve an issue we experience now where....during the beginning of our business day, for about 20-40 minutes, we experienced severe latency for members getting to our in-house hosted website. The latency stems from the fact that we're sending out our daily broadcast newsletter to 27,000 people and it currently takes as much of our internet pipe outbound as it can grab.
yes, I could limit the e-mail sending server such that this doesn't come up. However, the broadcast would take anywhere from 80-120 minutes at that point, during which things are still "slow" and our remote office employees have a difficult time just doing day-to-day work via their RDP/Citrix sessions.
What I'm wondering...is there a way to set up a bandwidth rule or rules that only apply during certain times of the day?
Thanks,
=Steve
I'm looking to resolve an issue we experience now where....during the beginning of our business day, for about 20-40 minutes, we experienced severe latency for members getting to our in-house hosted website. The latency stems from the fact that we're sending out our daily broadcast newsletter to 27,000 people and it currently takes as much of our internet pipe outbound as it can grab.
yes, I could limit the e-mail sending server such that this doesn't come up. However, the broadcast would take anywhere from 80-120 minutes at that point, during which things are still "slow" and our remote office employees have a difficult time just doing day-to-day work via their RDP/Citrix sessions.
What I'm wondering...is there a way to set up a bandwidth rule or rules that only apply during certain times of the day?
Thanks,
=Steve
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Hi Steven,
let me begin to tell you that I don't know if this is possible, but I could be completely wrong.
When I look at the way the file "/etc/firewall" (location of the bandwidth rules) is setup and rebuild (alphabetically re-ordered after every change made from the web interface), I don't see how this could be done.
It doesn't look like "/etc/firewall" is handled like a script, but processed from the 1st line till the last (and only if there are no errors, as I have discovered first hand).
Maybe there is a way to have for example 2 different "firewall" files and to let some process select witch of the 2 files should be used, depending on the current time ... but that's a wild guess and would need the advise of a Linux expert.
The best advise that I could give you is to send the 27.000 e-mails before or after business hours.
Or maybe you could create bandwidth rules that insure that it doesn't take up all the bandwidth and leaves some for the employees.
Anyway ... sorry if I wasted your time.
John
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