From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 03:22:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190CC2AF for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-la0-f54.google.com (mail-la0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846498FC08 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 03:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f54.google.com with SMTP id j13so2390464lah.13 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:22:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qSFTpt6g4FkhbiQ9qZOtkMbiL2M8LgDZGjrW/ULYFRQ=; b=hGBGVQPMpL0u/n6w7R+Og0LwfP7G6f4Yma3IYh+5yP2wbU4wIGNJiIWWiT34z1zUB5 7kKlz42w30bkcyrFxB+oslqMfuIJ/eOInZlzwpdqOPIZSEStmlDvWfQyiUAGKWeBd1ve tNglzZkNRdcFtb7tPxp8Yjx0cYxp1fL6sV9GY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=qSFTpt6g4FkhbiQ9qZOtkMbiL2M8LgDZGjrW/ULYFRQ=; b=KgDHRLeN9xeMwJ2pXVaco7juXcMP+wknYPRLoY6ZhZBWlogSkynepkg+jEcL73jk5U MfEp2X92WMdsJFO5E+vQkDI/xI2f+8fLD1KNlrcr0K5DhnEDDnCQ+398AOSBpBcaeZ+Q p8nWeHR+dSB490MoPHD8x8OEKH0gtLfayOjVqvCmyqfVsNZ8892K7q4PRAVcT7jCSQAP 67faaVOihNDHvcfy5pbGSLC40TfG+GFzO635kbnLEIgHAO2G+cKP3NupEET+33bfKLIQ y75gnJUyDsTeStHxoN16oO0nUg3E3+o1yaaM3ia55mgbO44z5WXmDshf4QAO+hU8XzGD Ckow== Received: by 10.112.103.135 with SMTP id fw7mr3720507lbb.17.1354504967883; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:22:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.154.168 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:22:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <88363D83-14D8-4E35-8AB0-6E1E2659AEF6@gsoft.com.au> References: <88363D83-14D8-4E35-8AB0-6E1E2659AEF6@gsoft.com.au> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 22:22:17 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: looking for help from ppp users To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQksfzFAi1d6Gy0oJpd8rtc6zStzV8VxvoUrM76aPzpA+ubDoZq/OGWuDJRqXy2TbOqT2JVO Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:22:50 -0000 On 2 December 2012 21:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote: ... I've marked the appropriate sections as red on the http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ page. Should I mark the rest green or were they unreviewed? Either way the feedback so far will be taken into account. > I would also add a section about MTU - I expect the dominant use case for= PPP is ADSL these days. In this case the MTU is usually limited to 1492 by= tes (1500 byte ethernet frame minus PPP framing overhead). If all ICMP is b= locked at some part of the link then packet fragmentation doesn't work prop= erly and you end up with symptoms like interactive SSH logins work but bulk= SCP or FTPs don't. I've added this to http://wiki.freebsd.org/NewFAQs > I hope that helps! It was very useful - thank you! Myself, or another volunteer should get to them in due time. At the moment I'm just trying to get triage done. --=20 Eitan Adler