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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:12:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, julian@elischer.org
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very strange network behaviour - can anyone help me analyse tcpdump  output?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111271041160.56896-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3C036E9D.21808A44@pipeline.ch>

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In the continuing saga of IPSec over PPPoE for a retail POS environment that
> > I'm maintaing, the problems seem to become more complex as time goes on.
> > 
> > The network is quite simple:
> > [ LAN #1 ] - [ FreeBSD Gateway #1 ] - [ ISP ] - [ FreeBSD Gateway #2 ] - [
> > LAN #2 ]
> > 
> > Both LANs connect using PPPoE with the same ISP, and are one hop apart
> > (according to traceroute).
> 
> This smells like MTU problems. Try to set the MTU on your physical LAN
> interfaces to something like 1480 or so any try again.

That's what I thought too.  I checked, and ppp is doing the TPC MSS
fixup.  Even after removing the gif/ipsec stuff that I was doing
(less overhead, and converting this installation into a plain
LAN-behind-NAT setup), the problem persists.

I tried dropping the MTU on my LAN interface to 1200 (from 1500), but that
didn't change anything.

If my ISP installed a bunch of really buggy hardware, would that explain
why this started happening recently without any changes on my side?

--
Matt Emmerton


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