HELP: How to setup git on the system

Hi,

I'm trying to get clone image of 2.6 kernel throgh git and getting following
message during cloning.
[root@dhcp root]# git clone
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
linux-2.6
defaulting to local storage area
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.kernel.org:Connection timed out (110)
rsync error : error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94)

I've RHEL 4 U2 on IA32 platform.
The platform has network configured with DHCP (with no firwall enabled).

Any comment would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Seokmann