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Jon_Strabala_46's avatar
Jon_Strabala_46
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May 14, 2010

Want throttle or add small delay/pause to slow down SMTP connections

Hi,     My basic question is once I know I want to temporarily "block" "delay" or "pause" a connection to "slow" down a TCP (actually SMTP) connection a fixed period of time say between 100ms to...
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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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May 18, 2010
Hi Jon,

 

 

As TMM is single threaded, if you could add delay to connections, it would affect all connections that the TMM instance is handling. So there isn't a practical way to accomplish exactly what you've described. I wonder if you could use rate classes to do this to some extent though:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/rateclass

 

 

Aaron