[CentOS] Weird bandwith behaviour (download throughput) on CentOS based gateway

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 02:57:18PM +1300, Clint Dilks (clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> Hi,
> 
> Are you sure  that your issue  isn't related to the mirror that your
> systems are selecting ?  If they are using different mirrors I would try
> using the fastestmirror plugin to make the gateway select the same mirror
> as you other host.

Darn!!!!

I should have included in the initial email that I actually ran EXTRA tests from a {local} CentOS mirror using wget after I figured there was some differences in the "yum update" times ...

The Gateway:

  [root at GATEWAY /tmp] #>wget http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/6.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
  --2017-10-05 14:59:55--  http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/6.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
  Resolving mirror.internode.on.net... 150.101.135.3
  Connecting to mirror.internode.on.net|150.101.135.3|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 3972005888 (3.7G) [application/octet-stream]
  Saving to: “CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso”
  0% [                                                                              ] 4,454,198    680K/s

One of the hosts behind it:

  [root at piquet /tmp] #>wget http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/6.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
  --2017-10-05 15:01:32--  http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/centos/6.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
  Resolving mirror.internode.on.net... 150.101.135.3
  Connecting to mirror.internode.on.net|150.101.135.3|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 3972005888 (3.7G) [application/octet-stream]
  Saving to: `CentOS-6.9-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso'
  0% [                                                                              ] 13,616,730  2.4M/s


Jobst


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