From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 10:49:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ebola.biohz.net (ebola.biohz.net [206.80.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE437B684; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from flu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.biohz.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A84C63A4C6; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:09:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <01f301c08fb7$fe86ad00$0402010a@biohz.net> From: "Renaud Waldura" To: Cc: , References: <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:09:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If all you want is sort out the MTU mess, you only need to download the latest ppp sources from Brian's site at: http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html Compile, install, and include: enable tcpmssfixup in your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. --Renaud ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Telford" To: "Vince Vielhaber" ; "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: "Brian Somers" ; "Julian Elischer" ; ; Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations? > Hmm my timing for this topic seems right on :) > Since I ran out of disk space trying to update to -stable this afternoon > (now that's another topic for another day "Why so much space to keep up > with -stable, when /stand/sysinstall can do an inplace update ?") > So should a throw another drive in this thing and go -stable or not ? > What does MFC'd mean ? > Perhaps a summary of each of your thoughts would help me ? > Thanks, I really appreaciate all the help. > Regards, John. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vince Vielhaber" > To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" > Cc: "Brian Somers" ; "Julian Elischer" > ; "John Telford" ; > ; > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:28 PM > Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan > stations? > > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > > > > At 22:50 4-2-01 +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > John Telford wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm putting a 4.2 R firewall in for a ppoe connection. > (sympatico) > > > > > > Is there any workaround I can use so I don't have to reduce the > MTU > > > > on all > > > > > > the internal stations ? > > > > > > It's a mix of Windows 9x and Macs. And I've found only one utility > > > > capable > > > > > > of adjusting MTU on Macs. > > > > > > Can anything be done on the freebsd box as the traffic goes > through it ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, John. > > > > > > P.S. the pppoe setup went fine thanks to a page at > www.sympaticousers.org > > > > > > and some further notes at www.freebsddiary.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ppp now has an option where it will force the negotiated packet size > > > > > of new tcp sessions going through it down. (i.e it fiddles with the > > > > packets) > > > > > check the man page.. I THINK it may be in 4.2, if not it's > in -Stable > > > > > > > >It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-( > > > > > > Brian, may I quote you from a different thread? =) > > > > > > "I think I've figured out the problem though... can you try the latest > > > version of ppp - should be available via > > > http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html RSN (the 010204 archive) if you > > > don't get -current. " > > > > > > John might not need that version, but shouldn't he be able to run a > newer > > > ppp on his 4.2-R without hitches? > > > > No reason why not.. I'm doing it. > > > > Vince. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message