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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 17:37:06 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: ppp problems on 4.3-RELEASE and PPPoE 
Message-ID:  <200105161637.f4GGb6b30680@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>  of "Wed, 16 May 2001 10:12:57 EDT." <3B028AE9.F1963C00@thehousleys.net> 

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Try reducing the interface MTU further.  It's possible that there's a 
misconfigured router between you and the sites *and* a part of the 
route has an mtu of less than 1492.

``set mtu 1480'' or ``set mtu 1460'' may work.

> I have been having problems with the the newer Windows machines, 2000 &
> Me, not being able to access some websites.  I have had to manually edit
> the registry to change the MTU.  This should not be needed, because I am
> running 4.3-RELEASE which has had the tcpmssfixup feature for a while. 
> It is enabled.  Unfortunately this maching is in an office in Canada,
> and I am not in Canada.  I am using natd and ipfw for NAT and the
> firewall.  The link has a static IP if it matters.  Below I am attaching
> ppp.conf.  I have watched some of the data with tcpdump on both tun0 and
> ed0, but I am not sure what to look for.
> 
> Suggestion on how to proceed.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ---- ppp.conf ----
> default:
>  ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)
> 
>  # Ensure that "device" references the correct serial port
>  # for your modem. (cuaa0 = COM1, cuaa1 = COM2)
>  #
>  set device /dev/cuaa1
> 
>  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
>  set speed 115200
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
>            \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
>  set timeout 180                        # 3 minute idle timer (the
> default)
>  add default HISADDR                    # Add a (sticky) default route
>  enable dns                             # request DNS info (for
> resolv.conf)
> 
> magma:
>  ident
>  set device PPPoE:ed0
>  set MRU 1492
>  set MTU 1492
>  set authname **************
>  set authkey *******
>  set log Phase Chat Connect
>  set dial
>  set login
>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>  set timeout 0
>  set server +3000 *******
>  enable tcpmssfixup
>  disable dns
>  set cd 5
>  set crtscts off
>  enable pap
>  disable pred1
> 
> ------------------
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