Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Leonard Isham
On 10/20/05, Mike Ireton wrote: > Leonard Isham wrote: > > > > > Merge the encrypted and unencrypted traffic for each side. Look for > > missing unencrypted packets and then compare encrypted packets that > > follow and look for a correlation of one or more missing or out of > > order encrypted

[Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Ireton
Leonard Isham wrote: Merge the encrypted and unencrypted traffic for each side. Look for missing unencrypted packets and then compare encrypted packets that follow and look for a correlation of one or more missing or out of order encrypted packets. Also non-trivial. I think you d

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Leonard Isham
On 10/20/05, Mike Ireton wrote: > Leonard Isham wrote: > > > >> > >>The problem with this test is that there are many hundreds of OpenVPN > >>packets per second flying between machine a and machine b - coupla > >>megabits per second in fact. There is no way to capture just the crypted > >>ud

[Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Ireton
Leonard Isham wrote: > >> >>The problem with this test is that there are many hundreds of OpenVPN >>packets per second flying between machine a and machine b - coupla >>megabits per second in fact. There is no way to capture just the crypted >>udp packets carrying the tunneled data involved in the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Leonard Isham
On 10/20/05, Mike Ireton wrote: > James Yonan wrote: > > > > > When you do your 1393 byte ping from A to B, the packet is going to travel > > 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> ICMP echo reply on B -> 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1. > > > > I need to know exactly where the packet is being dropped in this chain. > > > The prob

[Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Ireton
Mathias Sundman wrote: Then try using the --fragment option with a rather low value which will cause OpenVPN todo internal fragrentation to avoid IP fragmentation and see if the frags goes away, and hopefully the problem as well! A problem with this - which I am open to doing if it does so

[Openvpn-devel] Re: Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Ireton
James Yonan wrote: When you do your 1393 byte ping from A to B, the packet is going to travel 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> ICMP echo reply on B -> 4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1. I need to know exactly where the packet is being dropped in this chain. The problem with this test is that there are many hundreds of O

Fwd: [Openvpn-devel] Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Sent only to Mathias first time. Oops. -- Forwarded message -- From: Janne Johansson List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2005-okt-20 12:42 Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames To: Mathias Sundman 2005/10/20, Mathias Sun

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Bug report (long) - OpenVPN dropping small frames

2005-10-20 Thread Mathias Sundman
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mike Ireton wrote: Suspeciously, I also have been observing an excessive number of ICMP "Frag reassembly time exceeded" messages coming from this openvpn client directed at the server. Putting 2 and 2 together, these excess icmp messages appear to be being generated becaus