Poor IPSec performance

olejak

Perhaps a "esp_frag 552;" in the racoon.conf will help on this issue but I don't know how to add it to that conf file permanent. Every time I reload racoon the line disappears from the conf file.

Does anyone know if " esp_frag 552;" will help on this issue?

olejak

Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this issue?

Perry

Could you upgrade to 1.2.3 http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=377

olejak

Sure. How do I get a hold off it?

Perry

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/

olejak

Upgraded to 1.2.3 with no success. Still the same problem :-[

Can it be a HW failure or HW incompatibility?

I've tried a cross-over cable between the two servers with 1000baseTX. I've tried to force the interfaces to 100baseTX with no success and I've tried placing a switch in between. All with the same result.

eri--

did that racoon config helped you ?
It seems like pmtu discovery problem. Can you take an tcpdump output file of 1min of traffic and attach here either on the enc0 interface and LAN and wan ones

olejak

I was not able to make the changes to the racoon config. It's overwriten every time racoon starts.

I will make a tcpdump asap and attach it here.

olejak

Here is the dump from the wan interface on pfs1.

I'm not getting any packages on enc0.

I've updated both boxes to 1.2.3 20090224-0050

em1_dump.txt

olejak

Has anyone any idea?

Perry

Commercial support might be the way to go

Eugene

Hi Olejak,
have you resolved the problem?
Just interesting…
Actually it is normal for large packets:
13:00:47.407446 IP 192.168.42.2 > 192.168.42.1: ESP(spi=0x01e083a4,seq=0x3), length 1480
13:00:47.407450 IP 192.168.42.2 > 192.168.42.1: esp

I am just wondering whether you receive the same two packets on the other end? I.e. if it is a trace from FW1 do you see the same packets on FW2?

jftuga

Try placing a switch between the 2 pfSense servers. I ran into issues using crossover cables that were cleared up when I used a gig switch instead.

-John

valnar

Set the MTU of your adapters down to 1400 and try again. Large packets + IPSEC + no fragmentation is a common problem.

For Windows, you can use this: http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

Eugene

@valnar:

For Windows, you can use this: http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

Sounds very interesting. Could you explain in more details? -)

fastcon68

Can you please give me a little me details. I have setup a similiar configuration. I had a dual 866 with 1 gb of ram connected over 100 mb connected to compac dl 380 with 100 nics. no speed issues. Teested with serveral different issues.
RC

valnar

Just google MTU, fragmentation, IPSEC and VPN.

infratek

Hello Olejack,

Did you finally solve your issue ?
I'd be very interested as I have the same right now.
I've tried to lower MTU on the WAN interface configuration but it's not taken into account even after a reboot.
A ifconfig shows an MTU of 1500 even though I entered 1300.
I can't find any topic where someone succeeded in modifying the IPSEC MTU.
Im' considering to replace ipsec with openvpn maybe.

About commercial support, I've asked once for tinydns support and never had any reply …

Thanks for your help.