VPN MTU limit breaks ssh connection to openssh 6.2p2 server

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Nov 9 04:52:52 EST 2013


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Ernst Kratschmer <ernstk at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,

[ top posting makes it difficult to follow ]

> I am sorry, but I don't know what "ping with DF set" is.

DF is the "Don't Fragment" bit

> I can run "ping -l size". This fails if size is greater than 1252, over
> VPN or LAN.

-l is not useful here.  You may want to use -g and -G.
By default the DF bit is not set.  You may use the -D flag to set it.

> Not sure if this helps.


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Eitan Adler


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