On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 22:22 -0600, Nicholas Steblay wrote: > 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? > Set your timeout higher and your retries higher. setting 0 for retries means retry w/o ever stopping. can be annoying when the connection is truly borked. -sv
