Re: rate limiting

[Casey Connor]

Thanks, Curtis. We have taken all that in to consideration. I'll spare 
you the long story, but we are testing somewhat specific things. :-) -c

If you are trying to simulate a very busy mailserver, then you should 
be concerned about connections to it from multiple hosts per second 
most sending one or a few messages and a realistic test would have to 
have a nominal TCP RTT in the range of a few to a few 10s of msec 
since the speed of light is limited and geographic delays come into 
play. I've been involved in testing and some simulation of this type 
but on routers and various switchy-thingies rather than mailservers. 
Curtis