Yum and partial downloads.

[Robin Laing]

This was a question asked of me by one of our network admins.

Background.

Today, while doing the updates on my machine at work, one of the 
packages was close to 300MB in size.  Yum tried to download this file 
multiple times with no success.  It kept timing out with the below 1000 
Bytes/second for over 30 seconds.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964298



In one case, the file was at 99% complete when it stopped.  Restarted on 
a different mirror at 0%

Due to firewall rules there is bandwidth management and it allows 
downloads to start at a high speed only to slow down at 25MB.


The Question.

The network admin asked if Fedora was like Ubuntu that will continue 
downloading where it left off?  I stated I doubted it as the display 
kept going back to zero

Robin Laing