Yes, like James, I'd say that your problem is MTU issues with the PPPoE. Aside from the usual mss-clamping solution, you could also lower the MTU on the "lan2" to 1460 or so. DHCP should tell the other boxes about that, and things may work better. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html