[Openswan Users] Packets being dropped

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jeremy Mann wrote:

> I am experiencing a problem with packets needing retransmission.  I'm
> doing a gateway to gateway connection from my home(dynamic IP) to my
> office.  The tunnel never dies, but if I try to do an SSH session
> across the tunnel, I can login just fine but running a ps -ef or top
> or whatever displays a little text then just locks up.  I've done a
> tethereal dump and this is what I see:

Try lowering the mtu. Lkooks like fragmentation/mtu issues. Or try using
tcp_mss (see wiki.openswan.org) for tcp clamping (though that does not
work for udp)

Paul