I have WIMAX that gets interrupted...stops working altogether. The connection 
is actually broken. Like just now:

-bash-3.2# pkg refresh
-bash-3.2# pkg install pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0.5.11-0.86
Nothing to install in this image (is this package already installed?)
-bash-3.2# pkg image-update
^C-bash-3.2PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=2000
-bash-3.2# pkg image-update
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
SUNWcups                                  32/536  1310/14880 222.55/1241.74pkg: 
An unexpected error happened during image-update: (131, 'Connection reset by 
peer')

[The WIMAX died]

[Starting all over again from the beginning]

-bash-3.2# pkg image-update
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
SUNWcsl                                    4/536    24/14884  3.35/1241.75 


IPS does not pick up from where it left off downloading like Apt does at this 
stage from what I gather. It starts again from the very beginning. I am going 
to be lucky if I can maintain a connection for more than a couple hours at the 
most. Here I probably need 8 hours to download 1241.75 MB.

Apparently the problem is being worked on:

http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/06/20/opensolaris-old-annd-new-packages/

"Bart is a really nice guy and one of the wizards behind a number of packaging 
technologies at SUN. According to him, there is a lot of hygiene work going on 
in the IPS packaging system. For example, my one big complaint about pkg 
image-update when the update is really huge is that if your update halts before 
it's over (say, due to a networking timeout), then you have to start all over 
again! According to Bart, they are working on improvements in this area which 
should be available "in weeks." Apparently this is all being discussed in 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], a good place to go if you want to know more!"

So long term I am optimistic.
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