From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 16:11: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hera.drwilco.net (10dyn237.dh.casema.net [212.64.31.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD93F37B491; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.nl (ceres.drwilco.net [10.1.1.19]) by hera.drwilco.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f150XEo00957; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:33:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.nl) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20010205000202.00c47f00@mail.bsdchicks.com> X-Sender: lists@mail.bsdchicks.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:04:20 +0100 To: Brian Somers , Julian Elischer From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan stations ? Cc: John Telford , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200102042250.f14Mo7M07132@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <3A7D9DE0.CE10C046@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_162724927==_.ALT" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=====================_162724927==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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? DocWilco --=====================_162724927==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" 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?

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