On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:39:18PM +0200, Valentin LAB wrote: > Well, I've found the solution. It's in the forgotten PPPoe manual in > kernel mode of 2.4.x (i've found it in google's cache, it had > disappeared from the referenced link.)
Fortunately, it is documented in the (recent) iptables manpage... > It links to this page : http://www.hgfelger.de/mss/mss.html , which is > quite interesting to read when you have an ADSL Modem and you have > problems as those mentionned above with kernel-mode PPPoe driver. > > It tells to add only one line to the firewall script : > > iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS > --clamp-mss-to-pmtu > > if this isn't magic, i'm a toaster :)) > This work really fine for me now. > > Could somebody comment this line for my education ? (or give a quick > link to explain, or give the state-of-the-art on the TCPMSS target) Isn't the manpage explication sufficient? RV -- _ (°= Hervé Eychenne //) v_/_ WallFire project: http://www.wallfire.org/
