diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 5f7756bd04..63fe44ade7 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The FreeBSD Documentation Project - $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.259 2001/08/31 16:26:23 dd Exp $ + $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.260 2001/08/31 17:04:49 dd Exp $ 1995 @@ -10008,22 +10008,24 @@ ATDT1234567 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans\0000\MaxMTU - It should be a string with a value 1450 - (more accurately it should be 1464 to fit TCP - packets into a PPPoE frame perfectly but the - 1450 gives you a margin of error for other IP - protocols you may encounter). This registry key is reported to - have moved to + It should be a string with a value 1436, as + some ADSL routers are reported to be unable to deal with packets + larger than this. This registry key has been changed to Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ID for adapter\MTU - in Windows 2000. + in Windows 2000 and becomes a DWORD. Refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base documents Q158474 - Windows TCPIP Registry Entries and Q120642 - TCPIP & NBT Configuration - Parameters for Windows NT for more information on - changing Windoze MTU to work with a FreeBSD/NAT/PPPoE - router. + Parameters for Windows NT and + Microsoft Q120 for more information on + changing Windows MTU to work with a NAT router. + + Another regedit possibility under Windows 2000 is to set the + Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ID for adapter\EnablePMTUBHDetect + DWORD to 1 as mentioned in the Microsoft Q120 link above. Unfortunately, MacOS does not provide an interface for changing TCP/IP settings. However, there is commercial software