On 10/21/2015 12:45 PM, Sven Schwedas wrote:
> On 2015-10-21 12:30, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>> On 10/21/2015 12:25 PM, Patrik Flykt wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 12:12 +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>> The use of the different MTU options depend on you server and link
>>>> configuration. I don't think you can derive it. OpenVPN seems to offer
>>>> an option to learn the MTU size by doing some measurements but that
>>>> takes around 3 minutes according documentation. I recommend to just
>>>> expose those options and let the user decide what he needs.
>>>
>>> Well, now the problem is that I have no idea what to add as MTU values
>>> if I need to... Sven's "documented" problem and solution was to use
>>> --tun-mtu, if that is the max sized packet that can go through
>>> unfragmented it looks like the only option one should specify. And
>>> --fragment seems to be needed always in addition to any of the MTUs?
>>> Unless it's the default behavior?
>>
>> I don't know if there is a sane MTU configuration setting for OpenVPN. I
>> reread the documentation several times and it seems you need to pick the
>> options according your configuration.
>
> Yeah. Those values are left alone for the large majority of deployments
> and I've only seen them used to deal with wonky carriers in WWAN
> deployments.
>
> Personally, I'd be fine with using the OpenVPN.ConfigFile parameter for
> the few cases I end up needing it. (And I'm not even sure whether we're
> going to migrate to connman.)
Good point. I completely forgot about ConfigFile. So
OpenVPN.MTU <n>
should map to
--tun-mtu <n> --fragment
?
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