Re: Slow file sharing performance

James Knott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cipe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hans Steegers wrote:
>>There are no firewall rules that apply to the VPN traffic.  The internet
>>connection, that the VPN passes through doesnsn't see the SMB or NFS
>>traffic, because they're encrypted in the tunnel packets.
> 
> Of course, but a typo is easily made and overlooked causing filtering
> between the LAN and CIPE interface...
> Also: ICMP traffic can be involved for routing CIPE's UDP packets...
> 
> 
>>CIPE automatically adjusts the MTU as required, but I have also tried
>>smaller packets, without any improvement.
> 
> The so called MTU problem is not CIPE's but other's having problems with
> CIPE's 1442 or 1428 MTU.
> 

I have tried cutting the MTU way back to 440 bytes.  The problem still 
exists.

Also, given that the external world sees only the encrypted packets, 
shouldn't things like MTU or ICMP affect every protocol and not just SMB 
or NFS?


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