Re: [Openvpn-devel] Why does the tun-mtu default to 1500 bytes?

Hi Marcus, On 17/04/19 00:11, Marcus Wichelmann wrote: Hello, I'm wondering what the reason is that OpenVPN Community sets the default TUN-MTU to 1500 bytes, as seen here: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/ed31cf2ab718d879615dea81e6a17d26537ab43a/src/openvpn/mtu.h#L70 In my

[Openvpn-devel] Why does the tun-mtu default to 1500 bytes?

Hello, I'm wondering what the reason is that OpenVPN Community sets the default TUN-MTU to 1500 bytes, as seen here: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/ed31cf2ab718d879615dea81e6a17d26537ab43a/src/openvpn/mtu.h#L70 In my understanding, because of the additional overhead that the VPN tunnel