On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > In my case, my network is connected via a PPP dialup connection. As long > as the pppd is running, my system doesn't receive ICMP messages about the > lack of a connection (pppd queues packets until a connection is made). > Whenever I reconnect, my ISP gives me a new IP address. > > Whenever the dialup connection drops, yum transfers end up hanging, > sometimes for hours until I interrupt them. > > This is why I added the wget option to my copy of yum. Wget works around > the problems I have with downloading. I see. That's an icky problem. Do you know how wget deals with it? Does it just have some sort of high-level timeout? (ie, not tcp timeouts, but its own) -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
