Re: Cipe 1.6.0 VPN stalled if big file are transferred

> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:52, Giacomo Gorgellino wrote:
> > By doing other test I found that only when a file is transferred by the
cipe
> > server with a faster connection (1Mbit) to a cipe server with a slower
> > connection (adsl 640Kbit) trough scp over cipe the tunnel goes in stall.
> >
> > May be that is some kind of UDP-flood ?
> > About this I found only CA-1996-01, may cipbe be vulnerable ?
>
> If you are only doing one transfer the speed should be
> throttled by the tcp window set on the underlying connection.
> If other things are happening on the same tunnel you could
> easily drop udp packets carrying the tunnel but the underlying
> tcp retries should eventually get things through.
>
> You might be able to use rsync with the --bwlimit option to
> control the sending rate better.
>

I tried again to transfer a file with scp not over the CIPE and now it goes
also in "stall", so i think i made some mistake in the first test, but now I
can say that:

_it's not a CIPE problem._

May be my router or my linux server .. but this is not the right place to
discuss on it i think.

-Giacomo-




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