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. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc