> > For the others who suggested reducing mss values and such - I'm > > already doing it. In fact I have mss clamped down to 1312 right now for > > testing. But, mss clamping doesn't have anything to do with the loss of the > > lcp-echo frames I was complaining about. > > > Janne also suggested that you could play with the MTU settings. I don't > think you will get away with only changing the MTU when you're doing > bridging though as you would then have to change the MTU on ALL hosts > connected to both sides of the bridge as it's the transmitting hosts MTU > that decides what frame size to use, not the recieving end (the openvpn > machine).
According to this wepbage: http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html you can use: echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc to make linux hosts stop doing the DF-trick. Might be helpful if that seems to be the case for you. -- Some mornings, it's just not worth gnawing through the straps...
