Pirut: Edit -> Repositories

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 19:05:03 UTC 2007


> the network in my college is set up like a very paranoid network ..
> where theres 6 separated networks that couldnt connect to each other ,
> and 1 central network that become the center of all 7 networks. theres
> a proxy farm in the central network that allows connection between the
> 6 networks , however, it have a crazy limitation. port 80 POST/GET
> with 2MB size limit and port 443 TCP/CONNECT .. and no other protocols
> allowed .. this limitation also applies to normal internet
> connection.. I managed to get around that and mirrored Fedora's
> repository locally for others who dont know how to sneak through the
> network.

I had a very similar set-up in my university too. We did not have the
2MB size limit though. :-)

Cheers,
Debarshi
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