Subject: Re: Small MTU and TCP MSS
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/2002 05:31:20
In article <3CDCA35F.6A278959@ppires.org>,
	Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org> writes:
> I thought of having the NetBSD firewall forcibly fragment large
> segments, but I have read some discussions in NetBSD mailing list
> archives where people condemned this severely.  Anyway, is it possible
> to do it with IPF/IPNAT?

The common work arround for this problem is called MSS clamping and e.g.
done by PPPoE routers because the MTU on PPPoE lines is usually 1492.
NetBSD-current supports MSS clamping since a few weeks. Have a look at
the bottom of this URL:

http://www.de.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/pppoe/

The IP NAT setup explained there should fix your problem.

	Kind regads

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/