On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:29:49PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Luiz Antonio Emerenciano Alcoforado:
> > Like that : Mach1 --> Mach2 --> Mach3 --> Mach4 --> Mach5 (same link as
> > Mach1)
> >
> > Thus, when the problem were raised by the faling link, Mach1 will
> > forward the pending emails to Mach2 and they could be sent.
>
> When all links are down, you have a loop
>
> 1-2-3-4-5-2-3-4-5....
>
> going at local network speeds.
The right solution to this problem is a packet routing solution,
not an SMTP message routing solution.
--
Viktor.
