From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 19:14:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A30216A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:14:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from muse2.calarts.edu (muse2.calarts.edu [198.182.157.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9525043D69 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:14:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from [198.182.157.9] (smurphy.calarts.edu [198.182.157.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by muse2.calarts.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0VJEBA5030208 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Message-ID: <43DFB6FD.6040005@calarts.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:14:05 -0800 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 198.182.157.28 Subject: Re: pkg_add down! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:14:15 -0000 Thanks for your replies I found out that dedicating traffic to ftp protocol did not help at all (we are very tight on bandwidth) once I dedicated 300Kbps to the server on all protocols It downloaded perl and nessus-plugins immediately with no change on the FreeBSD server. (does this mean that pkg_add -r uses more than just ftp protocol for obtaining packages?)