From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 5:47:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-151-197-204-160.bellatlantic.net (adsl-151-197-204-160.bellatlantic.net [151.197.204.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E9037B512 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 05:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bleez@bellatlantic.net) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by adsl-151-197-204-160.bellatlantic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00336; Sun, 28 May 2000 08:47:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bleez@bellatlantic.net) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 08:47:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Bryan Liesner X-Sender: root@adsl-151-197-204-160.bellatlantic.net To: Victor Tsang Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE and nat In-Reply-To: <39310881.D258BB60@ieee.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 May 2000, Victor Tsang wrote: >I am new to FreeBSD and it is my first time to install FreeBSD. > >I installed FreeBSD 4.0 and am going to configure PPPoE and NAT. I >followed the instructions found in FreeBSD.org web site and man pages >and easily get PPPoE work. However, NAT don't work and its behavior is >strange. > >My environment is one FreeBSD running as gateway, connecting my LAN and >ISP using PPPoE and there is a Macintosh running Darwin in the LAN for >my testing purpose. > >Either I don't enable NAT in rc.conf, or set ppp_nat="YES" , the >behaviors are the same: > >In Macintosh, when I telnet to outside world, I can see the login screen >and login prompt. Once I key in the user name and password, there is >nothing to show on screen and eventually the telnet timeout and >disconnected. > I had a similar problem with nat and a Win98 box. If the FreeBSD system seems to work OK, but the Mac hangs up on outside connections, try adjusting the MTU to 1492 on the Mac. I guarantee that the current settings have MTU set to 1500. I have _no_ experience with Macs, so I couldn't tell you how to accomplish that. ========================================================== = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = ========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message