Re: Dropped Traffic on IPSec VPN after switching ISPs

Lee Sharp <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/12/2011 04:46 PM, Jim Spaloss wrote:

> That said, I have m0n0wall deployed at quite a few locations, many of which
> have been have been working reliably with IPSec tunnels for several years.
> This location that I'm dealing with the issue in was trouble-free for
> several years over IPSec, right until until we switched from DSL to cable.

> This issue may very well be unrelated to M0n0wall or IPSec, and I probably
> will pursue it with the ISP. The only reason why I haven't so far, is that
> the same ping command that loses 50% traffic over the tunnel, doesn't drop
> any when going out to an external web site like Google, and I've have no
> freeze-ups, or disconnects when connecting to the site via PPTP. That's what
> has me stumped.

I have had some bizarre problems with MTU.  The worst was a website that 
would only partially load till I dropped it.  I am about to start 
setting it to 1400 as a regular practice.

			Lee
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.