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<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2
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<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Any suggestions or
instruction would be greatly appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=655225816-06112009><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Mike</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>