From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 18:53:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts7.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B594F37B69E; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from johnny2k ([64.229.39.50]) by tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010205025327.KANY6682.tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@johnny2k>; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> From: "John Telford" To: "Vince Vielhaber" , "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: "Brian Somers" , "Julian Elischer" , , References: Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:53:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm my timing for this topic seems right on :) Since I ran out of disk space trying to update to -stable this afternoon (now that's another topic for another day "Why so much space to keep up with -stable, when /stand/sysinstall can do an inplace update ?") So should a throw another drive in this thing and go -stable or not ? What does MFC'd mean ? Perhaps a summary of each of your thoughts would help me ? Thanks, I really appreaciate all the help. Regards, John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Vielhaber" To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: "Brian Somers" ; "Julian Elischer" ; "John Telford" ; ; Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > > At 22:50 4-2-01 +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > 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 :-( > > > > Brian, may I quote you from a different thread? =) > > > > "I think I've figured out the problem though... can you try the latest > > version of ppp - should be available via > > http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html RSN (the 010204 archive) if you > > don't get -current. " > > > > John might not need that version, but shouldn't he be able to run a newer > > ppp on his 4.2-R without hitches? > > No reason why not.. I'm doing it. > > Vince. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message