[Openswan Users] FW: VPN works, but you can't eBay ;-)

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Miguel Dilaj wrote:

> Another user raised an issue when trying to connect to MSN (the instant
> messenger, not the website). It seems that he can't logon. I can connect
> with no problem, so basically it's exactly the same issue (will have a look
> at the output of ipsec auto --status later).

I can confirm this. I am on tunneled IP, and I need to lower my mtu to
1400 for hotmail (website) and msn(website and IM) and jabber (IM) to work.

Likely those sites are dropping icmp packets needed for path mtu discovery.

Paul