From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 14:48:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F8037B401; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:48:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f14MmN207012; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:48:23 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f14Mo7M07132; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:50:07 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200102042250.f14Mo7M07132@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer Cc: John Telford , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations ? In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:22:24 PST." <3A7D9DE0.CE10C046@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:50:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers 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 It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-( > -- > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ julian@elischer.org > ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 > ---> X_.---._/ > v -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message