Re: SMTP auth rpm auth speed

[Michael Devogelaere <michael.devogelaere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thad,

Are they complaining about the actual authentication process or in general
about the upload speed ? Maybe they're using some kind of asynchronous
internet-connection in which the upload is way slower than the download-speed.
If they're only complaining about the authentication process, you should check
the options passed to your tcpserver. By default, tcpserver issues a
auth-request (tcp-connection on port 113) on each connection-attempt. 
tcpservers waits for the answer _or_ a timeout. And that timeout can vary
in the ranges you mention. I think you can disable the auth-request with
the '-R' option of tcpserver. 

Regards,
Michael.

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:10:38PM -0500, Thad Marsh wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>  
> 
> I am using the SMTP auth rpm and have had several users complain about
> the speed when sending.  
> 
> I have checked this from a few connections and it is more or less 30-60
> second from different places.
> 
> All other speed test show no problem reaching the server and downloads
> are fine.  Users upload speeds are in the range of 128k-T1s.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a way to accelerate the authentication process for sending? Or
> something in the patch that is inherently slow.  
> 
> It personally isn't a problem for me but I have a few clock watchers and
> they are troubled by the minute or so that the authentication process
> takes.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your advice
> 
>  
>