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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:53:57 -0500
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>
Subject:   Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan  stations? 
Message-ID:  <000801c08f1e$e277d970$3227e540@johnny2k>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102041927350.6552-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>

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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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