From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 20:40:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB1637B491; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from johnny2k ([64.229.44.2]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010207044002.YYD20800.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@johnny2k>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:40:02 -0500 Message-ID: <002601c090c0$1e6e7590$022ce540@johnny2k> From: "John Telford" To: "Renaud Waldura" Cc: , References: <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> <01f301c08fb7$fe86ad00$0402010a@biohz.net> Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:40:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, thats now my plan. Thanks to the pointer from Matthew Emmerton to your articles too, good stuff. I also got a bigger hard drive because I will have to update this thing sooner or later so may as well start off with enough drive space. I now have a new easy question for you all, watch for it in -questions. Regards to all, John. > 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-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