Wireshark/tcpdump are your friends in these cases.

http://www.wireshark.org/
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html

Sonia.

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:25:03 +1100, "Joshua Rasnier"
<[email protected]> said:
> Sorry I figured out the issue. What I was having trouble with was a
> simple
> yum update through RHEL 5.
> 
> What I had was to allow 443 between host and
> https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com,
> which redhat documentation and redhat costumer service told me that was 
> all
> I needed.
> 
> But I found that communication also needed to be allowed from host to
> https://deploy.akamaitechnologies.com.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joshua Rasnier
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Sonia Hamilton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Depends what protocol you're using - http, https, ftp, rsync.
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:15:43 +1100, "Joshua Rasnier"
> > <[email protected]> said:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Just got a question. What ports are needed to download from linux
> > > repositories, port 80 and 443 only?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Joshua Rasnier
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