Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:50:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: John Telford <j.telford@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations ? Message-ID: <200102042250.f14Mo7M07132@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> of "Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:22:24 PST." <3A7D9DE0.CE10C046@elischer.org>
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> 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
It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-(
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