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No such luck. Changed it to 1400, and even tried 1300. Same behavior.
At 03:17 PM 11/10/99 -0600, Sean A. Walberg wrote:
>IF you're using the PPPoE, set your ppp0 MTU to 1400. PPPoE has overhead
>that the Ethernet MTU doesn't take into account.
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>Sean
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>On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jason Walton wrote:
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>> I have a small private network (consisting of my machine, my GF's machine,
>> and a scavenged Cyrix 6x86 120 turned router). I've tried to setup the
>> Linux box as a IP Masuerading machine, with some success, but I have some
>> very very strange problems.
>>
>> From a Masq'd machine on the internal network, I can ping machines on the
>> internet. I can telnet, and I can do other simple functions. I can play
>> Quake III Test without any problems. I can't check email through POP3 or
>> surf the web though. Web pages load either extremely slowly, or not at all
>> (or bits of them load and then the network connection eventually times
>> out). POP3 connections work fine up until a RETR command. I telneted into
>> a POP3 port by hand and I could do whatever I wanted, but as soon as a
>> tried a RETR, the connection stoped responding. I can browse through FTP
>> directories, but if I actually try to FTP a file the connection just dies.
>>
>> The linux box is setup with Kernel 2.2.12 and PPPOE V0.31, connecting to
>> an internal network on eth0 (192.168.0.0/24) and the internet on ppp0,
>> which is a ppp connection over eth1 to an xDSL modem.
>>
>> Everything works fine if I'm actually running apps on the firewall
>> machine, so I know my connection to the internet is good. Traffic flows
>> properly from the linux box to my machine (I've FTP'd large files back and
>> forth without any problems).
>>
>> According to ifconfig, no packets are being dropped, so everthing seems
>> good there. I'm running a very very simple set of ipchains rules based on
>> the sample rc.firewall script in the IPMasquerading HOWTO.
>>
>> My MTU and MRU are both set to 1500 for the PPP connection, and the
>> ethernet connections are all at their defaults (which appear to be 1500
>> from an ifconfig), so it isn't the "differing MTU and MRU cause packets
>> with the 'do not fragment' bit set" bug.
>>
>> I'm not using IPAUTOFW.
>>
>> I'm at a complete loss. Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> It may be related, but I doubt it. When I first fire up pppoed (PPP over
>> ethernet daemon) I get a ">>> Discarding: NO PPP device waiting! <<<". I
>> sometimes get a number of these errors after killing my PPP connection to.
>> I can't figure out where they're comming from. They aren't from pppd or
>> pppoed, since neither of them are running. GREPing through the entire hard
>> drive (find / | xargs grep) for "NO PPP" and "device waiting" yielded 0
>> matches.
>>
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