On 01/22/2010 12:11 PM, Prof. P. Sriram wrote:
I believe a correction might be in order - we have made it non-usable for those that have 1 ip address and want to download at a rate exceeding 5 active connections per minute. Do you know of any such organizations?
yes, lots! including almost every office environment in the SME setup. Many people run development and testing VM's / machines inside their offices - and almost all have a small set of adsl links coming in ( in EU and US atleast ), that they use for all outbound internet connectivity behind a NAT setup. In many cases, yum-cron like jobs will kickoff at very similar times across an organisation.
Shouldn't they be enhancing their connectivity?
an example - adsl2+ brings in approx 16Mbps downstram, thats plenty of connectivity for most offices with <= 50 employes who mostly only do :80/:443 sort of traffic, with some other things like :22 and maybe rsync. They should perhaps consider setting up local repo's within their facility, but many lack the resources to do so.
If you know of any package that provides this enhanced functionality, I would be happy to implement that instead of our current scheme.
I personally dont. But if its a case of watching a log file, should not be hard to implement. However, the problem of things like repomd.xml etc still persists.
How about turning off 'RANGE' requests in httpd ? is that an option.