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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:28:35 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp lcp.c 
Message-ID:  <200107301728.f6UHSZc31671@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>  of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:04:39 PDT." <200107301704.f6UH4d786415@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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If anybody can tell me how to get an MTU out of win2k it'd be 
appreciated (and I could research this further).

Cheers.

> brian       2001/07/30 10:04:39 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/ppp         lcp.c 
>   Log:
>   If the peer REJects our MRU REQ, stop REQing it -- *EVEN* if we're
>   doing PPPoE and the default MRU is therefore too big.
>   
>   When negotiating with win2k, we ask for MRU 1492 and the win2k box
>   NAKs us saying ``MRU 1492''.  This doesn't make sense to me.  When
>   we continue to request MRU 1492, the win2k box eventually REJs our
>   MRU.  This fix allows negotiations to continue at that point,
>   bringing the link up and potentially allowing the win2k box to send
>   us frames that are too large.  AFAICT this is better than failing
>   to bring the link up.... probably !
>   
>   I have no idea how to do the equivalent of ``route get'' or
>   ``ifconfig -a'' under win2k, so I can't tell what MTU it actually
>   ends up using.
>   
>   I believe the bug is in win2k (it's certainly mis-negotiating).
>   I'll MFC given the release engineers permission as code freeze
>   begins on August 1.
>   
>   PR:		29277
>   MFC after:	3 days
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.94      +2 -2      src/usr.sbin/ppp/lcp.c
> 

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