Hi all I just installed Bering uClibc 1.1 and am very happy with it... well happy with all except one thing. It seems the default ppp for this LEAF version is possibly one of the older ones which contained a bug with MTU translation. Well, that's how it appears from my experience anyway.
When I send packets through my LEAF firewall from another host, if it's an amount of traffic larger than 1492 the traffic gets no further than that 1492. After a lil research I found that the earlier implementations of pppd had this problem and it was caused by it not being very good at breaking packets up and forming them into new sizes. So when traffic from my network, running at the standard ethernet MTU of 1500, reaches pppd it freezes, confused about how to send traffic of 1500 down a 1492 pppoe link. I got around this by setting the MTU on the network cards of each host on my LAN to 1492. This is of course an extremely ugly hack (but I didn't have time to try to fix the ppp installation) I was wondering if Bering users out there are aware of this problem and whether there's a solution to it simpler than changing the MTU settings on all hosts on the network. Or if there's a more up to date ppp.lrp (or pppoe.lrp if it turns out that's causing the problem). Thanks, all! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
