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IpinIP tunnels - was Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd)
From: Paul Mansfield <paulm () uk psi com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:20:02 +0100 (BST)
# > I'm experiencing problems with fragmentation due to Cisco GRE tunnel # > overhead: the way I understand it, the MTU if a GRE tunnel will always be # > less than the MTU of the underlying IP cloud (in our case 1500 bytes) due
We can confirm that IP in IP tunneling is broken too... To quote a specific case, Sparc/Solaris networking over a tunnel with IP in IP will break, e.g. the largest ping you can do is "ping -s xyz 1452", so you have to reduce the MTU, we lowered ours to 1400 (arbitrary reduction) and it makes the problem "go away". The router in question was running 11.1, but from what's been said, it looks like it's generic across the range. I think the Perl program posted was a great idea, now if only Cisco would add a Perl interpreter to IOS :-) Paul ---- P Mansfield, Senior SysAdmin PSINet, +44-1223-577577x2611/577611 fax:577600
Current thread:
- MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Jens Schweikhardt (Jul 06)
- IpinIP tunnels - was Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Paul Mansfield (Jul 06)
- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Alex P. Rudnev (Jul 06)
- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Dennis Ferguson (Jul 07)
- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Dave Thaler (Jul 09)
- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Jens Schweikhardt (Jul 09)
- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) Dave Thaler (Jul 09)
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- Re: MTU problems with GRE tunnels (fwd) BrandonButterworth (Jul 06)