[c-nsp] mtu size GRE tunnel

Stefan Hegger Stefan.Hegger at lycos-europe.com
Tue May 29 07:12:46 EDT 2007


Hi,

we found the problem. There was a rate limiting for icmp unreachables. When 
increasing this value all wokrs fine.

Thank for your answers.

Best Stefan

On Friday 25 May 2007 18:20, you wrote:
> try:
>
> ip tcp adjust-mss 1400
>
> on your tunnel interface. It'll save you from updating all your hosts.
>
> On 5/25/07, Stefan Hegger <Stefan.Hegger at lycos-europe.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > hope you can help me to solve my problem. We are running some GSR's
> > (cisco 12008/GRP) with IOS Version 12.0(26)S6. We opened a GRE tunnel to
> > another location and have problems with the MTU size.
> >
> > It seems that the GSR's does not  return an ICMP message
> > indicating "fragmentation needed".
> >
> > When we decrease the MTU to 1400 on host, everything works fine.
> >
> > Best Stefan
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Stefan Hegger
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