RE: Yum Update Mirrors

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:41 -0400, Christian Campbell wrote: 
> Actually, after some further troubleshooting, it seems to be a networking
> issue.  I tried downloading a file using wget, and it starts downloading
> fast, but as the transfer continues, the K/s starts to get lower and lower
> until "--.--K/s" appears.  If I break out of the transfer, and restart, same
> result.  The yum transfer seems to have the same problem.  I'm SSHed into
> the server, and there is no sluggishness there.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why my server's transfer would start out fast at
> the beginning but only after 48K or so, it starts to get exponentially
> slower until it crawls?

Over zealous firewalling that blocks communication far too much, so that
you can't negotiate MTU, for instance.  Dropping all ICMP traffic is not
a brilliant thing to do.

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