[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

[John covici]

on Sunday 10/28/2007 Sven Köhler(skoehler@×××.de) wrote
 > > Hi.  I am having a very frustrating prroblem when I use the pppoe
 > > plugin like so:
 > > 
 > > config_ppp0=("ppp")
 > > link_ppp0="eth2"
 > > plugins_ppp0=("rp-pppoe")
 > > username_ppp0='vzeqmmst'
 > > pppd_ppp0=(
 > > "updetach"
 > > "noauth"
 > > "ipcp-accept-remote"
 > > "ipcp-accept-local"
 > > "holdoff 3"
 > > "lcp-echo-interval 15"
 > > "lcp-echo-failure 3"
 > > )
 > > 
 > > What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network
 > > has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just
 > > fine, but not to Microsoft sites and other places.
 > 
 > Use this:
 > 
 > iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --syn -j TCPMSS --clamp
 > 
 > 

OK, thanks to all who responded -- I had to do mtu_ppp0=1492 and then
I had to do the iptables rule.  I still wonder why the native package
worked, but not the plugin?  Go figure.

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