I have a Debian router which connects to an ADSL/PPPoE line (therefore with a PPP interface and a MTU of 1492).
Behind it are Linux machines, MS-Windows boxes and MacOS toys, all NATed (i have only one IP address) by Netfilter/iptables (router kernel is 2.4.7). The two first categories have no problem surfing the Web without a proxy, getting big files with FTP, SSHing to remote machines, etc. But the MacOS machines can only use protocols like FTP, SSH, NNTP, no HTTP. Web pages (unless I go through a proxy, of course) are not retrieved except if they are very small (like Google's home page). It seems clearly MTU-related. But the Mac does have OT Net Tuner <URL:http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ottuner.html> and the MTU has been set to 1492 (like it is on the Linux and MS-Windows computers). Is there another trick for PPPoE? A trick which seems specific to FTP. Food for thought: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#MACOS-WIN98-PPPOE-FREEZE http://www.petabit.com/ADSL/ADSL.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
