From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 11:23:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-03.iinet.net.au (syncopation-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CE7737B491 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11875 invoked by uid 666); 4 Feb 2001 19:30:47 -0000 Received: from reggae-02-40.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.91.40) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 4 Feb 2001 19:30:47 -0000 Message-ID: <3A7D9DE0.CE10C046@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:22:24 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Telford Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, 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=iso-8859-15 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 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message