[Yum] [UG] yum ftp possibly-nat-related weirdness

[seth vidal]

> Well, urlgrabber (the Package) has a "timeout" option which may be
> getting used from yum and not from the "urlgrabber" executable.  For a
> proper comparison, we should make sure that the function is getting
> called the same way.  I suspect that's why you're seeing the
> difference, though.
> 
> Now, assuming that's it, the timeout error is just that: a timeout
> error.  This is probably not a bug in the code, although it could be.
> URLGrabber has been Thoroughly tested with NAT.  My home desktop is
> behind a NAT linux box, so I routinely use it that way.  I see that
> the timeout option doesn't appear in the unit tests, though, so it's
> possible that there's a conflict that got missed.
> 
> Anyway, are we sure that the timeout isn't a "legitimate" timeout?

I bet I know what it is.

I bet the session is remaining open and being killed by the netgear for
inactivity/use.

Matthew,
 try putting: net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 300
in the users /etc/sysctl.conf file and restarting their machine.

see if the problem goes away.
-sv