On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 23:26, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Could you spare some knowledge on the proceedure when using tcpdump and > what I am supposed to be looking for please? If it's a stand alone workstation, with one ethernet port, then all you need to do is: su - tcpdump That will show you all of your network traffic.. Then, start your updater (I prefer yum), and watch the output on the screen... It's a bit cryptic, but not bad after looking at it for a couple of minutes.. You might even start with using your web browser, and see what goes where, and then try your updater... They both have to do the same thing, so that would be a good comparison.. Hopefully that will give you an idea of where the problem is... -- Homer Parker /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign BOFH for homershut.net \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.homershut.net x No Word docs in email telnet://bbs.homershut.net / \ Respect for open standards "Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." -- Microsoft's Homepage, on the day an SQL Server bug crippled large sections of the Internet.
