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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EMAIL != FTP
> > > > But for a little extra SMTP handshaking at the start, there is no > > efficiency > > difference in transfer rate between SMTP and FTP. Probably the same is > > true for HTTP though I've not looked. > > I think you missed the fact that sending files via SMTP is incredibly > inefficient. Any files sent via SMTP have to be encoded which can balloon > the transmission up 30%+. That is an incredible waste of bandwidth on a After all, nmodep compress it back to the original size while transferring. The rate loss is 5 - 10%, not 30 - 40. For LAN, this volumes are not large (1 - 2 Mb). > 10MB file. Also, remember that SMTP usually relays, so the message is > bounced between 1-8 servers along the way (or more), more bandwidth and > resources wasted. *sigh* > > -- > Robert Blayzor IP Network Engineer, BOFH BiznessOnline.com, Inc. > [email protected] [email protected] http://www.thebiz.net/ > > FreeBSD, Putting the 'Operating' back into OS! -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > >
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