[Openswan Users] Error on File Transfer over VPN

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Frederico Madeira wrote:

> I have a vpn net-to-net using openswan.
>
> I can connect to other machines in other side, I can ping and I can
> open ssh connections as well.

You sure? Try an 'ls -algR /'. I bet it hangs after a screen

> My problems is when I try to transfer files between nets. Scp send
> first block of file, and after stop, and I got a timeout error.
>
> What could be the cause of this issue ?

Most probably MTU issues and failed path MTU. Try lowering the MTU
to 1492 or 1472

Paul