From owner-freebsd-net Sun Feb 20 12: 8:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-106.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F9737BED6 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@shift.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA42834; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:08:07 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA80998; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:07:56 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200002202007.UAA80998@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dermot McNally Cc: Brian Somers , 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) In-Reply-To: Message from Dermot McNally of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:32:06 +0100." <4.2.0.58.20000220172816.00a38778@tim> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:07:56 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message