From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jul 15 14:35:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5589937B66F for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13DYwc-0007Ov-00; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:53:54 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13DYwc-000N7h-00; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:53:54 +0100 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:53:54 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan Flemming Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Suggested addition to PPP FAQ - solution for Macintoshes and Black Hole DSL routers Message-ID: <20000715215354.R84045@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3970B730.C4D28290@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VnOTrGv5LmZxna7m" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3970B730.C4D28290@mac.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --VnOTrGv5LmZxna7m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dan Flemming wrote: > At http://www.ca.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/ppp.html#AEN3716 you have some advice > for Win9x users connecting through a FreeBSD box that's running PPPoE > and NAT. Well, Macs have the same problem (the default MTU on MacOS 9 > at least is 1500), but a different solution, which I just found. :) > > There's a program called OTAdvancedTuner (OT for OpenTransport, the > MacOS TCP/IP stack) made by a company called Sustainable Softworks, > http://www.softworks.com/ The program is shareware, $15 US I believe > (haven't registered yet, just got it), with a 21-day tryout period. It > allows you to configure a bunch of TCP/IP settings on the Mac. The > relevant one for the black hole problem is ip_interface_MTU; Mac NAT > users should select that from the drop-down menu, enter 1450 instead > of 1500 in the box (it allows up to 64000, imagine that :) and then > click the box next to Save as Auto Configure and then click Make > Active. This seems to have solved my current problem... Thanks -- I'll probably add something like this soon. In future, you should use send-pr(1) to send your changes so they don't get lost. Sending diffs to the SGML source would also be nice, but a PR without a diff is better than no PR at all, of course. :-) --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / --VnOTrGv5LmZxna7m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 1ZM11Tt5eUfo2EaROVBMbRX9Vu4Umm6g iQCVAwUBOXDPYSsPVtiZOS99AQF25QQAke80SHchUmt2B2OVwfTMJzWlHFeurDpq RHKv87ZG36jb6hSTaHNqlpw72P9/oVPNn5jYQ18iRqyghYuSKSN69FEDxmBkHOnQ 3uBeyYYgHjV3JN3xFtbVaf73Txv7D2aRIIab0017Tzb7EH0m+2kjWMbU7uoVhcz2 pKzen86doe4= =97HL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VnOTrGv5LmZxna7m-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message