Of course, it is not necessary to upgrade to woody in order to use kernel 2.2.17. The woody kernel-source package will work fine, as well as the tarball from linux.kernel.org.
Bob On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Stan Kaufman wrote: > In case I'm not the only one who has run into this problem, here's what > happened and what fixed things. > > On my potato firewall box, I ran a custom 2.2.15 kernel with the stock > PPPoE package (Roaring Penguin v 1.0-1) from the Debian archive with > good results. The only problem was that for unclear reasons, some web > sites wouldn't come across the connection. > > Then I tried to upgrade to a 2.2.17 kernel (still potato--which means > the 2.2.17-pre-6 source). At that, my PPPoE connection to PacBell DSL > tanked. The connection would start and then it would die after a handful > of packets. > > I thought that the old version of PPPoE might be the problem, since the > current Roaring Penguin version is 2.3. So I debianized and installed > the RP tarball. The new version of PPPoE still worked with the 2.2.15 > kernel but not with the 2.2.17 kernel. > > Finally I decided to upgrade the whole box to woody, and recompiled the > 2.2.17 kernel with the 2.2.17-1 source that is in the woody > distribution. This kernel works beautifully with the RP PPPoE. > > Two things seem relevant: something got fixed/improved in the kernel > source from 2.2.17-pre-6 and 2.2.17-1; and the latest version of RP's > PPPoE has an option to lower the maximum TCP segment size, which somehow > corrects the problem with getting to certain web sites (like > www.hp.com). > > Bottom line: if you're having trouble with a firewall box running the > 2.2.17 kernel, upgrade to woody and install the latest PPPoE from RP (ie > don't use the PPPoE in the woody distribution, which is still back at > 1.7). > > Hope this helps anyone else avoid wasting the time I spent trying to > work this out! > > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
