VPN registration issues usually point to MTU issues. Or at least packet or 
fragments due to MTU issues. I suspect there is a different in packet size 
during the registration of these two devices or capabilities that affects 
packet size.

When the primary link is down, you could run some ping tests while setting the 
ping size to 1X00 and setting the DF bit as well, this will help you find the 
max size packet with overhead that can fit over the tunnel. Typically VPN 
tunnels take at least 80 bytes of overhead, so the largest MTU I would expect 
you could fit over the tunnel would be 1420.

I would try and adjust your tunnel MTU down to 1400 or even 1300 just as a test 
to see if it helps. (In my demo setups with EZVPN tunnels, I can only use 1350 
max) Also, are your VPN endpoints able to fragment packets or clear DF bits so 
that they can fragment large packets? If you can clear df-bit at the interface, 
that may help move some of the larger packets through IF they have the DF-bit 
set.

+Chris
TME - Unity Connection and MediaSense

From: cisco-voip [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Charles
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 11:44 AM
To: Charles Goldsmith
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco 8851 not failing over to backup circuit...

MTU was set to 1440, we set it to Auto, no change...



Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Charles Goldsmith 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What's your MTU over the backup VPN?  I've seen odd issues on some
networks with different providers and MTU and fragmenting packets
always caused issues until the MSS was set.

I'm not sure why this would affect the 8851's, but we've noticed some
other oddities with the 8851's.  For instance, computers with intel
nic's behind the phone have issues after we apply config, and we
narrowed it down to intel gigabit master slave mode setting on the
driver, at least, setting that to slave instead of auto resolves the
problem.  Otherwise, you have to reboot the phone a couple of times to
get consistent connection through the 8851.  Phones are connected to a
2960 with a basic config, nothing out of the ordinary.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Jonathan Charles 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> We have CUCM 8.6.2 with Cisco 8851, Cisco 8831 phones at a remote location;
> they are connected over MPLS and a Peplink Balance VPN as a backup.
>
> When we yank the MPLS, the 8831 registers with CUCM and works fine.... the
> 8851s do NOT.
>
> Any reason the 8851 would act differently?
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan
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