Hi, I am running yum 2.1.12-1 on Fedora Core 3. I have a Dell with a standard ethernet NIC. I am connected to the Internet through a Linksys WAP11 acting as an Access Point Client to a Linksys wireless router that is connected to the internet via Linksys cable modem and Comcast. The WAP11 and my Dell NIC are connected to a Linksys ethernet switch. I have used this configuration to avoid configuring a wireless card within Fedora. I seem to get solid access to the Internet and other computers on my network. I am not seeing network problems with other applications, though downloads do occasionally hang. When I use yum to get updates, large rpm downloads always stall with the error: Socket Error: timeout. I have retries set to 3 and timeout set to 15. If I use 0 for retries yum hangs eternally. I have also tried setting keepalive to 0. It seems to me that yum is not handling socket timeouts very well. Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Is this likely a problem with how the WAP11 is bridging the wireless network? - Nick
