From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 12: 6:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A177837B43D for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.brann.org (159-87.nyc.dsl.access.net [166.84.159.87]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB52691E4; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from john@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0VK6Rv46342; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:06:26 -0500 From: John Brann To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No response on some https connections through NAT Message-ID: <20020131150626.A46318@freebie.brann.org> References: <20020130205604.A74375@freebie.brann.org> <200201311928.g0VJSE853840@mikko.rsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200201311928.g0VJSE853840@mikko.rsa.com>; from mikko@dynas.se on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:28:14AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many thanks. Your pointers were most helpful. As the quickest and dirtiest option, I tried copying the 'ppp' binary from the 4.4-STABLE system - which worked fine. I added the one line enable tcpmssfixup to my ppp.conf file, and everything worked. I can now access the URLs that were previously broken. OK, now I have to find the time to upgrade the gateway machine... Regards, John On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:28:14AM -0800, Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > In local.freebsd.questions you write: > > >Hi, > > >I have the following setup: > > > +-----------+ +-----------+ +--------------+ +------------+ > > --| DSL Modem |--- ep0 FreeBSD wi0 ---| Access Point |---fxp0 FreeBSD | > > | | | laptop | | | | workstation| > > +-----------+ +-----------+ +--------------+ +------------+ > > [...] > > >The laptop runs 4.1-RELEASE, the workstation 4.4-STABLE (of last week). > > [...] > > >PROBLEM: > > >When following certain Web links from the FreeBSD workstation, no page is > >received. > > [...] > > >HYPOTHESIS: > > >I wonder if this has something to do with window or max segment size? > > Sounds like it. There is a pretty good description at: > > > > > [...] > > >HELP REQUIRED: > > >Is my hypothesis valid? > >If so what can I do? > > PPP has a built-in fix for the problem since 4.3 or so. Try getting a > newer source and see if will compile on 4.1. You can usually find a > tarball on . > > Failing that, it is possible to make it work with /usr/ports/tcpmssd > and a little scripting. The first URL above used to contain > instructions on how to do it. > > $.02, > /Mikko > -- > Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com > RSA Security -- Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message