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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:28:08 -0500 (EST)
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>
Subject:   Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan  stations ? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102041927350.6552-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010205000202.00c47f00@mail.bsdchicks.com>

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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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