I had a similar problem.

Turn off the deep packet inspection feature on the sonicwall and try again.

Mike


Please excuse my brevity. Sent from my iPhone.

> On 29 Oct 2014, at 03:40, Lance Fredrickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Recently the small business I work at replaced an aging linksys wrt style 
> router with a SonicWall one. Ever since this change I have issues with this 
> node falling back to TCP constantly. TCP for me ends up performing very 
> sub-par, and most of the time unworkable. For some reason too the connection 
> usually ends up being routed through another node.
> 
> I created a new tinc instance using TAP (instead of TUN) between this work 
> PC, and one other host. I then added an additional route command in tinc-up 
> so the work node is aware of the other tinc network. This seems to work much 
> better with the new router. I'm guessing the constant flow and overhead (arps 
> and such)  of TAP is helping to keep the sonicwall device from 
> dropping/closing the connection.
> 
> I tried playing with PingInterval and lowered it to 30 seconds while 
> previously using tun so the work node might stay better connected. I didn't 
> see any better results, maybe even lower is necessary.  If I were to try to 
> use tun again, would this be the route to go? lowering the ping time? It 
> seems like the connection needs more activity for the connection not to be 
> dropped.
> 
> I also have seen that running "tinc dump subnets" while using TAP outputs the 
> MAC addresses tinc is aware. The MAC addresses leading zeros end up being 
> truncated. Not really anything detrimental, but was just wondering if this 
> was unintended, and thought I'd bring it up.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lance
> 
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