From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 25 5: 9:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl2.sentex.ca (vinyl2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DC237B401 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from house.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by vinyl2.sentex.ca (8.12.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5PC9ha2009457; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:09:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020625080603.07897008@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:08:07 -0400 To: Udo Erdelhoff From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: tracking down strange MTU issues with PPPoE) Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020625055632.GI67408@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020624155731.0205c700@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020618163928.05018cf0@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020624155731.0205c700@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:56 AM 6/25/2002 +0200, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: >Yes, but the solution in PPP only allows you to lower the MSS to >1452 so that the return packet is never bigger than 1492 bytes. >However, if you need an even lower MSS, you are still stuck with >tcpmssd. I need to lower my MSS to about 1410 to get cvsup to work >correctly. Interesting, I didnt realize that. In your case, is it consistent with all sites ? i.e. does it work with some, but not all ? Which cvsup server do you see this problem with or is it all of them ? I run a local mirror so I am able to cvsup to it no problem. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message