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Tim
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Wed Aug 23 16:46:42 UTC 2006
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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