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    • bingo600B
      bingo600
      last edited by bingo600

      Had a strange experience today on ly L2L connection to one of the remote sites. Both 2.4.5-p1

      The ICMP time to sw-01 (via vpn) on the remote site is usually around 220ms , but this morning it exploded to 1000+ ms even 1800ms.

      I asked the remote site to check the Inet connection , and they had no alarms.

      I dug a bit around in the OVPN logs and saw nothing.

      When i got back to the problem after lunch , i still had those issues 100+ ms ping time , and alarms on my Zabbix.

      I decided to start allow icmp from my central site to the remote site's WAN ip , and was quite "stunned when it was around 220ms" , but a ping inside the VPN still 1800ms .....

      In desparation i restarted the central openvpn daemon from "Services" , and afer a client reconnect. I also had 220ms pingtime inside the tunnel.

      I have this in both ends:

      fragment 1450;
      mssfix 1450;
      

      And have 5 other L2L OVPN tunnels wo. this issue.

      What could have happened here , that a "OVPN server restart fixed" ??

      Edit: CPU load in both ends approx 5..10% , 20% Ram used

      /Bingo

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