Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:09:31 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: dan@magma.ca (Danny Byers) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL, FreeBSD gateway, slow web browsing Message-ID: <nk5sss42ciiufuvbsa3keo7mlav7qk79m2@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <SEN.969386849.684773763@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.969386849.684773763@news.sentex.net>
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On 19 Sep 2000 14:07:29 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >hey! > >my situation: I have a 1 Meg Modem connection through my ISP in town. My freebsd >4.0 box is setup as a gateway with one network card handling the modem and >another network card connecting to a five port hub. > >All PC's on the network have the freebsd box as gateway: 192.168.0.1 with my >ISP's primary and secondary DNS servers listed as they should (all are Win98 >boxes). They are also all assigned their own IP (192.168.0.2-4). What should >their Subnet Mask be? > >The problem that I am experiencing is that web browsing/file downloading on the >internally networked PC's is not working. See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/ppp.html#AEN4149 It sounds like an MTU issue. However, I have found avoiding NAT behind PPPoE and using various proxying tool kits (squid, fwtk etc) gives better performance as well as better auditing. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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