[Yum] yum socket timeouts

[seth vidal]

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