From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 17:44:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB5637B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net (fed1mtao01.cox.net [68.6.19.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8A543F85 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:44:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba ([68.98.5.134]) by fed1mtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030709004443.ZNKA24939.fed1mtao01.cox.net@samba> for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:44:43 -0400 From: "Brent Wiese" To: Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:44:45 -0700 Message-ID: <0b9001c345b3$4ac98850$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Importance: Normal Subject: NAT and MTU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:44:47 -0000 I have a machine that is being double-NAT'd. Would it make sense to set the MTU lower to account for the NAT overhead? It makes sense to me as I know MTU, but I like to check in case my thinking isn't right. :) Brent