From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 21:19:31 2004 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 9285E16A4CF for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info (papendorf-se.de [217.160.222.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4379F43D49 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nagilum.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4198E2F4119; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (p15140542 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20309-07; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net (stgt-d9bb5c69.pool.mediaWays.net [217.187.92.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46312F405B; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:19:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0623029E2; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:18:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cakebox.tis [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91075-05; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:18:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.1.4] (scorpio.tis [10.1.1.4]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C40B302806; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <41421A57.8070704@nagilum.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:19:19 +0200 From: Nagilum User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Swiger References: <4142114F.80709@nagilum.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cakebox.homeunix.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at papendorf-se.de cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: something fishy with this network 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: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:19:31 -0000 Thanks Charles, You really saved my day! I had a "set MRU 1448" in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, I changed it to the default size of 1492 which even though it's even larger, solved the problem?! Thanks a lot again! Charles Swiger wrote: > On Sep 10, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Nagilum wrote: > >> Everything works fine except I can't access certain hosts in the >> internet from the Powerbook or the gateway, the most famous being >> slashdot.org (www.clamav.net is another one). I can access other >> hosts without problems but from some I just don't get anything. > > > Hm, perhaps try adjusting your MTU down? "ifconfig _name_ mtu 512" > > [ Obviously, you want to use the largest MTU which works, but the > above is a quick test that will show whether this helps. Replace > _name_ with the name of your outgoing NIC.... ] >