From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: ipsec tunnel asymmetrical mtu Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:42:38 +1000 Message-ID: <20060711104238.GA10976@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20060711064232.GA1490@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:17937 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750992AbWGKKmk (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:42:40 -0400 To: Marco Berizzi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote: > > I'm able to connect to a sap server connected to the milano network > from a sapgui client connected to the venezia network. No problem. > If packet loss is a problem it should be also a problem with this tunnel. > Am I wrong? It depends. A mild packet loss problem can become a big one when it is exacerbated by fragmentation, e.g., a 20% rate can become 40%. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt