Hi there ! A client has a number of machines on their internal LAN, all running FC4. To keep them all up2date takes quite a lot time and bandwidth because even at 512M broadband speeds the stuff has to be downloaded for all the machines on the network. Could I set them up with their firewall machine holding a mirror of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories and have all the network machines point to the firewall for repositories ? Any pointers to doing this and gotchas to beware of would be welcome ...
Isn't that a typical use for proxies? The proxyserver will cache the packages and after the first download all packages will be downloaded from the caching proxy with high speed and without using our internet bandwidth.