From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 9:56:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B1637B4EC for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f14HttL78353; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 12:55:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3A7D97AB.121952D7@thehousleys.net> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:55:55 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Telford , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations ? References: <000501c08ed2$2e1c5920$3227e540@johnny2k> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > Yes upgrade to 4.2-STABLE of at least Dec 18. tcpmss was added at that point and will fix your problem. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message