On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:41 -0400, Christian Campbell wrote: > Actually, after some further troubleshooting, it seems to be a networking > issue. I tried downloading a file using wget, and it starts downloading > fast, but as the transfer continues, the K/s starts to get lower and lower > until "--.--K/s" appears. If I break out of the transfer, and restart, same > result. The yum transfer seems to have the same problem. I'm SSHed into > the server, and there is no sluggishness there. > > Does anyone have any idea why my server's transfer would start out fast at > the beginning but only after 48K or so, it starts to get exponentially > slower until it crawls? Over zealous firewalling that blocks communication far too much, so that you can't negotiate MTU, for instance. Dropping all ICMP traffic is not a brilliant thing to do. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
