Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:53:57 -0500 From: "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca> To: "Vince Vielhaber" <vev@michvhf.com>, "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? Message-ID: <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102041927350.6552-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
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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" <vev@michvhf.com> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>; "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>; "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca>; <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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-net" in the body of the message
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