Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:07:56 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dermot McNally <dermot@mcnally.de> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Solved: NAT with PPPoE problems (was: NAT issues with ppp) Message-ID: <200002202007.UAA80998@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Dermot McNally <dermot@mcnally.de> of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:32:06 %2B0100." <4.2.0.58.20000220172816.00a38778@tim>
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> At 00:51 17.02.2000 +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> >If it still happens with the latest verison, can you also try
> >decreasing your network MTU to 1492 (or maybe even 1400 for kicks).
> >This would stop IP fragmentation - it shouldn't make a difference,
> >but, well....
>
> OK, I've got it working now. Your suggestion to limit the MTU was the key.
> I tried 1400 on all the local boxes (pausing only briefly to find out how
> the !@#* to do this on Windows 2000) and all was well. It's odd that things
> didn't work with IP fragmentation, but I'm glad, on the whole, that they
> didn't, since stopping the fragmentation probably makes everything work
> more efficiently anyway.
I'll look into this - this is definitely a problem. Thanks.
> Thanks,
> Dermot
>
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