Nick Kew wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:10:26 -0700 > Bart Smaalders <Bart.Smaalders at Sun.COM> wrote: > > >> Update SUNWipkg first. >> >> pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86 >> >> Later updates resolve most of the download issues, > > How recently? I spent a long time and lots of bandwidth > on the same problem as the OP, and it never got any better. > > but >> if your link is bad enough, you may still have issues. > > My link is plenty good enough to download an SXCE DVD > in a single session. But updating 2008.05 as described > in the release notes page has proved impossible, and > eats huge amounts of bandwidth. >
Are you using comcast as a provider? Customers were seeing problems w/ resets. Is your link via satellite? Since IPS currently uses short-lived connections, window size negotiation (warning, I'm not a networking expert), etc gets done a lot. Updating IPS first gets you code that is much more robust (retries, etc) in the face of network failure. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
