tinc version 1.0pre7 hangs

[Denny Fox]

Thanks very much for your prompt response.

I have set mtu 1400 on all the nodes, and that seems to have taken
care of the hangs.

Thanks again!

Denny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tinc-bounce at nl.linux.org [mailto:tinc-bounce at nl.linux.org]On
> Behalf Of Guus Sliepen
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:22 PM
> To: tinc at nl.linux.org
> Cc: Denny Fox
> Subject: Re: tinc version 1.0pre7 hangs
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:19:12AM -0500, Denny Fox wrote:
>
> [...]
> > on the same subnet. Both the other two legs are on
> different ISP's.
> > All the systems are running masquerading firewalls with
> IP chains, and
> > are running the tincd.
> >
> > The vpn seemed to act normally until there needed to be a
> larger data
> > transfer required. Then the connection would freeze and
> require the
> > process to be killed from the hub. I can also ssh into
> all the systems
> [...]
>
> Most probably the masquerading firewalls are dropping fragmented UDP
> packets. You can work around this problem by lowering the
> MTU of the tap
> device, by adding something like "ifconfig $INTERFACE mtu 1400" to
> the tinc-up scripts, or by using TCP to tunnel traffic, by adding
> "TCPOnly = yes" to the host config files.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>   Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.warande.net>
>

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