> gftp freezes too - but it restarts the download automatically at the > same spot it left off after a short delay. I don't have to restart from > scratch each time. gftp has a reget function, okay. > Yum now does huge updates flawlessly ! This is good. It also suggests > some sort of Yum issue handling some sort of socket error / lost packet > / timeout situation on flakey networks rather than a specific problem > with my machines or setup ? no, it means that yum doesn't have reget support and your connection was flaky. It's like anything else. Flaky connections make getting data difficult. -sv
