create a local fedora mirror. On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mike Smith <Mike.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our employees > to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows. On of my concerns is > the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the same RPMs through > our Internet gateway. Is there a way to set up a local RPM repository on > our internal networks so that the RPMs only have to be downloaded from the > main repositories once. All of our user machines would be configured to > look at the local repository instead of the main one. > > As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11. After the > initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of > updates. I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a > local source. This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway > (3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming from > a local source (1GB bandwidth). > > Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated. > > Mike > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto e-mail/msn/google talk/sip: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx skype: itamarjp icq: 81053601 +55 11 4063 5033 +55 34 3221 8599 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
