From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 8: 9:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1913037B42C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e8OF9VX60022; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:09:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Tancsa To: dan@magma.ca (Danny Byers) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL, FreeBSD gateway, slow web browsing Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:09:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Sep 2000 14:07:29 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: > >hey!=20 > >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.=20 > >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.=20 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) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message