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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 05:12:31 +0100
To: "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca>
From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>
Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan 
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At 23:05 4-2-01 -0500, John Telford wrote:
>The system will be firewalling one of our smaller divisions, 6 Win9X PC's
>and backup to theire Mac production ISP connection. Unfourtunatley they
>signed up for a pppoe type provider, probably to save $. I normally
>install -release for our other sites, they have a mix of cable, adsl, isdn
>all with fixed IP #'s or cable dhcp. Pretty easy stuff, this is the first
>pppoe type, luckly I have the same pppoe provider at home so I've got the
>box here to set up. Since the site is 2.5 -3 hour drive away I want to make
>sure I've covered everything (or all that I can) before taking the box out
>there.

Slap on -RELEASE, install latest stable ppp from awfulhak.org and stresstest.

Keep running -STABLE for your box at home.

Sorry for the short and terse reply, but one tends to get like that after 
coding for 12+ hours. =)

         DocWilco



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