Creating a local RPM repository

[Mike Smith]

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
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