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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:50:40 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To:        Karsten Patzwaldt <karsten@gedankenpolizei.de>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NAT and PPPoE
Message-ID:  <20000703105040.C73016@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <051c01bfe4ba$466aaf30$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>; from patrick@mindstep.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:45:28AM -0400
References:  <20000702233552.A862@odysseus.gedankenpolizei.de> <051c01bfe4ba$466aaf30$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:45:28AM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > OK, I finally got a DSL connection, and I set up a FreeBSD-router as a
> > router, using NAT to give access to the Internet for my whole network.
> > That works so far, I can connect via SSH, POP3 and so on. But FTP and
> > HTTP make problems. Those two protocols can be used from the router
> > without any problems, but the other computers on the LAN time out when
> > trying to connect to any server. They _are_ able to connect to to the
> > webservers of my provider (the german T-Online), but I don't reach any
> > other servers.
> 
> This sounds very much like the problem many people are having with PPPoE
> setups and Path MTU Discovery not functioning properly on remote web
> servers.
> 
> The only thing you can do is reduce the configure MTU on the CLIENT machines
> on the LAN to something like 1400 bytes.
> 
> Also, this problem has been discussed on this list quite extensively a
> couple of weeks ago. There is a small daemon to run on your FreeBSD gateway
> that will go around the problem.
> 
> Look for threads called '"frag-anyways" knob' and '[CFV] where to put the
> TCP MSS correction code'. The daemon is called "tcpmssd" and works like
> natd.
> 
... and is available from http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ru/tcpmssd.tgz

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