From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 15:17:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.one.net (mail3.one.net [206.112.192.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4030037B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:17:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip-216-23-53-187.adsl.one.net ([216.23.53.187] EHLO arrakis.desert-power.org ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 5380]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <336705-1182>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:16:55 -0500 Received: (from mwithers@localhost) by arrakis.desert-power.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00316; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:14:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwithers) From: "Mark B. Withers" To: Renaud Waldura Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? Message-ID: <20010206181445.A298@arrakis.desert-power.org> References: <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> <01f301c08fb7$fe86ad00$0402010a@biohz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <01f301c08fb7$fe86ad00$0402010a@biohz.net>; from renaud@waldura.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:49:57PM -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:16:53 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does this solve the problem I'm having with: set device PPPoE:ep0 receiving an error message with PPP ? Mark On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:49:57PM -0500, Renaud Waldura wrote: > If all you want is sort out the MTU mess, you only need to download the > latest ppp sources from Brian's site at: > > http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html > > Compile, install, and include: > > enable tcpmssfixup > > in your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. > > --Renaud > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Telford" > To: "Vince Vielhaber" ; "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" > > Cc: "Brian Somers" ; "Julian Elischer" > ; ; > > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:53 PM > Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan > stations? > > > > Hmm my timing for this topic seems right on :) > > Since I ran out of disk space trying to update to -stable this afternoon > > (now that's another topic for another day "Why so much space to keep up > > with -stable, when /stand/sysinstall can do an inplace update ?") > > So should a throw another drive in this thing and go -stable or not ? > > What does MFC'd mean ? > > Perhaps a summary of each of your thoughts would help me ? > > Thanks, I really appreaciate all the help. > > Regards, John. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Vince Vielhaber" > > To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" > > Cc: "Brian Somers" ; "Julian Elischer" > > ; "John Telford" ; > > ; > > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:28 PM > > Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan > > stations? > > > > > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > > > > > > At 22:50 4-2-01 +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > > John Telford wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm putting a 4.2 R firewall in for a ppoe connection. > > (sympatico) > > > > > > > Is there any workaround I can use so I don't have to reduce the > > MTU > > > > > on all > > > > > > > the internal stations ? > > > > > > > It's a mix of Windows 9x and Macs. And I've found only one > utility > > > > > capable > > > > > > > of adjusting MTU on Macs. > > > > > > > Can anything be done on the freebsd box as the traffic goes > > through it ? > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, John. > > > > > > > P.S. the pppoe setup went fine thanks to a page at > > www.sympaticousers.org > > > > > > > and some further notes at www.freebsddiary.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ppp now has an option where it will force the negotiated packet > size > > > > > > of new tcp sessions going through it down. (i.e it fiddles with > the > > > > > packets) > > > > > > check the man page.. I THINK it may be in 4.2, if not it's > > in -Stable > > > > > > > > > >It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-( > > > > > > > > Brian, may I quote you from a different thread? =) > > > > > > > > "I think I've figured out the problem though... can you try the latest > > > > version of ppp - should be available via > > > > http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html RSN (the 010204 archive) if you > > > > don't get -current. " > > > > > > > > John might not need that version, but shouldn't he be able to run a > > newer > > > > ppp on his 4.2-R without hitches? > > > > > > No reason why not.. I'm doing it. > > > > > > Vince. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message