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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:14:50 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: looking for help from ppp users
Message-ID:  <5EDA2902-93EF-433B-8AE6-8E1C16BF0029@gsoft.com.au>
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On 03/12/2012, at 13:52, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 2 December 2012 21:43, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> =
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 eyeballed all of the PPP FAQ entries and I couldn't find anything else =
wrong. I didn't try them though and only relied on my memory.

For 14.17 and 14.23 I didn't really know about the gory details so I =
just assumed it was correct..

>> 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 bytes (1500 byte ethernet frame minus PPP framing overhead). If all =
ICMP is blocked at some part of the link then packet fragmentation =
doesn't work properly and you end up with symptoms like interactive SSH =
logins work but bulk SCP or FTPs don't.
>=20
> I've added this to http://wiki.freebsd.org/NewFAQs
>=20
>> I hope that helps!
>=20
> 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.

OK thanks for your efforts!

BTW I see the serial port section is similarly stale (it still mentions =
sio instead of uart) and as the wiki page says, it doesn't mention any =
USB to RS232 adapters (which are likely to be what most people see on =
modern systems).

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