From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?unknown-8bit?q?J=F6rgen?= Danielsson Subject: Re: iptables and mtu Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org Message-ID: <20020610194925.54594.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200206101941.g5AJfUA01453@Networker.rockstone.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200206101941.g5AJfUA01453@Networker.rockstone.co.uk> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: netfilter@lists.samba.org > What is the MTU on the firewall interface connected > to the ADSL ? >=20 > I would have thought that if this was set to 1492, > then things should sort=20 > themselves out quite transparently... >=20 ppp0 is 1492 and its "connected" to eth0 that is 1500, and eth1 is connected to local net and it is 1500 >=20 > You *are* allowing the appropriate ICMP messages > into / out of / through your=20 > firewall box, aren't you ? Uhmmm, no idea actually, hehe, i just configures it to reject or accept access on certain ports, not dropping every package coming that isn't matching a certain port (hmm, hope anyone understands that sentence).=20 Why lock down everything when i know what service that is on the linux and on ever computer behind it. /J=F6rgen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com