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[Chadley Wilson]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:14, Homer wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 22:40, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Well I have been trying for the past three weeks every mirro on the
> > planet and every sugestion I have been give on this list and glug yum,
> > up2date and apt dont work they all hang. Yes Iam behing a firewall and a
> > proxy, I have a username and password for the proxy and the firewall
> > [same usename and pass] but nothing works.
> 
> 	What type of firewall? If you can't run any diagnostics on it, have you
> tried tcpdump on your local machine and see what's going on? I'm no
> expert by a long shot, but I can usually figure out what the problem is,
> and if not, there's a mess of knowledgeable people here.. Don't get the
> answer you need here, the join the yum/apt mailing list and ask there..
> There's a bunch of help out there, but sometimes you have to hunt a
> little for the person with the answer.. If you've tried the normal way
> of accessing through a proxy, and it doesn't work, I would suggest
> joining the yum or apt mailing list, and speak with the developers about
> it.. I've run into some strange things with some of these commercial
> firewalls.. That's why I don't sell them, I build them using Linux..
> Then I know what I have to work with..
> 
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> 
Could you spare some knowledge on the proceedure when using tcpdump and
what I am supposed to be looking for please?