[Openswan Users] MySQL over Openswan VPN tunnel

[Simon Deziel]

You can first try with running "sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400" directly on
the console. This setting will not survive a reboot of course.

On 14-02-12 03:53 PM, Christopher Slagel wrote:
> Thanks Simon.  Through some research I found that that might be the issue,
> and I¹ve tried editing our /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files
> and messing with the MTU (adding MTU=³xyz²), but don¹t seem to be having
> any success.  Is there another way I should try messing with the MTU?
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/12/14, 12:50 PM, "Simon Deziel" <simon at xelerance.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> The problem you describe could well be related to a MTU issue. I'd try
>> setting a MTU of say 1400 and see if things start working.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Simon
>>
>> On 14-02-12 03:38 PM, Christopher Slagel wrote:
>>> We have a VPN tunnel with Openswan between two AWS regions and our colo
>>> facility (Used AWS¹s
>>> guide: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/5472675506466066).  Regular usage
>>> works OK, but we are having some MySQL issues over the tunnel between
>>> all areas.  Using mysql command line client on a linux server works, but
>>> trying to connect using the MySQL Connector J it basically stallsŠ it
>>> seems to open the connection, but then gets stuck.  It doesn't get
>>> denied or anything, just hangs there.  Logging isn¹t picking up anything
>>> at all and usually very verbose about errors.  Any input as to what we
>>> can do to fix this/improve the connections would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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