<quote who="Howard Lowndes">
> I have set up a VPN over an ADSL link and I am getting traffic snarl-ups
> as a result.
If you're going Telstra-Telstra ADSL, and their routing issues still exist,
then you're stuffed. :) Basically you have to get on the opposite networks
to get decent performance at all.
> 1. Am I correct in assuming that both freeswan and ADSL add over head to
> the packets? I seems to recall the figure of an MTU of 1412 coming in
> some where.
Yeah.
> 2. Am I correct in assuming that the best place to fix this is in the
> ifconfig setting for that particular interface on the server? Currently
> it has MTU 1500. What would be a suitable setting here. I also guess,
> since this is Redhat, that I am going to have to look in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network, is this assumption correct?
If you're using roaring penguin, you can use -m, plus you can mtu clamp with
iptables.
- Jeff
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