[Yum] yum socket timeouts

[Nicholas Steblay]

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