Hi guys.

I successully setup l2l ipsec VPN between openwrt 15.5.1 and cisco router 891f
pase 1 and 2 sucess fully negotiated. Tunnel up but whenever I try to send big packet to openwrt router within tunnel VPN session freeze:

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[sam@st2 ~]$ ssh sam@192.168.173.1
sam@192.168.173.1's password:


BusyBox v1.23.2 (2016-01-02 18:01:44 CET) built-in shell (ash)

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CHAOS CALMER (15.05.1, r48532)
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sam@a81m2:~$ ifconfig
br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr E8:DE:27:FF:9F:43 
          inet addr:192.168.173.1  Bcast:192.168.173.15  Mask:255.255.255.240
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1833 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1441 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:233808 (228.3 KiB)  TX bytes:515241 (503.1 KiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr E8:DE:27:FF:9F:43 

<<<<<<<<< freeze here >>>>>>>>>> till I kill ssh process

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meantime I have no issues accessing openwrt box wia outside interface public IP.
So I assume this is tunnel MTU. As far as I know if ipsec iis not using tunnel interface it inherits MTU settings from public interface.

I setup MTU 1300 (if was previously 1500 by default) for openwrt box public subinterface:
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root@a81m2:/home/sam# ifconfig eth0.2 mtu 1300 up
root@a81m2:/home/sam#
root@a81m2:/home/sam# ifconfig eth0.2
eth0.2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr E8:DE:27:FF:9F:43 
          inet addr:192.206.xxx.yyy  Bcast:192.206.xxx.yyy  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1300 Metric:1
          RX packets:3125040955 errors:0 dropped:1941194 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4449468 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:53453837212 (149.7 GiB)  TX bytes:597384687 (869.7 MiB)

root@a81m2:/home/sam#
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but I still experiencing freezes wile sending big packets.

iis it possible I hit fragmentation issue now? what do you think?

Thank you guys.