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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:40:38 -0500
From:      "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca>
To:        "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan  stations? 
Message-ID:  <002601c090c0$1e6e7590$022ce540@johnny2k>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102041927350.6552-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k> <01f301c08fb7$fe86ad00$0402010a@biohz.net>

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Thanks, thats now my plan.
Thanks to the pointer from Matthew Emmerton to your articles too, good
stuff.
I also got a bigger hard drive because I will have to update this thing
sooner or later so may as well start off with enough drive space.
I now have a new easy question for you all, watch for it in -questions.
Regards to all, John.

> 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" <j.telford@sympatico.ca>
> To: "Vince Vielhaber" <vev@michvhf.com>; "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen"
> <drwilco@drwilco.nl>
> Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>; "Julian Elischer"
> <julian@elischer.org>; <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>;
> <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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" <vev@michvhf.com>
> > To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl>
> > Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>; "Julian Elischer"
> > <julian@elischer.org>; "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca>;
> > <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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