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    • RomoR
      Romo @dafyre
      last edited by

      @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

      Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

      Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @Romo
        last edited by

        @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

        @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

        Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

        Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

        UVerse? Then your service is PPPoE. You likely need to lower the MTU to account for it.

        Also If UVerse, you are screwed in your router options.

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        • wrx7mW
          wrx7m
          last edited by

          I'm assuming that the performance outside the VPN connection is fine, right?

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          • wrx7mW
            wrx7m @JaredBusch
            last edited by wrx7m

            @JaredBusch said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

            @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

            @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

            Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

            Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

            UVerse? Then your service is PPPoE. You likely need to lower the MTU to account for it.

            Also If UVerse, you are screwed in your router options.

            I haven't dealt with PPPoE since I stopped using DSL 12 years ago.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @wrx7m
              last edited by

              @wrx7m said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

              @JaredBusch said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

              @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

              @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

              Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

              Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

              UVerse? Then your service is PPPoE. You likely need to lower the MTU to account for it.

              Also If UVerse, you are screwed in your router options.

              I haven't dealt with PPPoE since I stopped using DSL 12 years ago.

              U-Verse is just DSL2 or some variant there of.

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              • RomoR
                Romo @JaredBusch
                last edited by

                @JaredBusch said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

                Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

                UVerse? Then your service is PPPoE. You likely need to lower the MTU to account for it.

                Also If UVerse, you are screwed in your router options.

                How low should I go, or is it just a matter of testing? Currently at 1400, web browsing is still not working properly.

                Tracing route to 10.10.10.1
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *      105 ms   102 ms  10.255.255.0
  2   118 ms   104 ms   102 ms  10.10.10.1

Trace complete.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> tracert 10.10.10.1

Tracing route to 10.10.10.1
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   106 ms   106 ms     *     10.255.255.0
  2   116 ms     *        *     10.10.10.1
  3   103 ms   109 ms   121 ms  10.10.10.1
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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @Romo
                  last edited by

                  @Romo I do not recall what the TCP overhead is on PPPoE without looking it up.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                    last edited by

                    @JaredBusch said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                    @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                    @dafyre said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                    Also, could this be an MTU settings issue? I know they're rare... but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

                    Was inded thinking about playing with the MTU, just now sure why it wouldn't on ATT. It is currently set for 1492

                    UVerse? Then your service is PPPoE. You likely need to lower the MTU to account for it.

                    Also If UVerse, you are screwed in your router options.

                    Not Uverse, it's their enterprise leased line.

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                    • RomoR
                      Romo
                      last edited by

                      Been playing for the value for a while and still no luck. I am still seeing packet loss.

                      Edge router logs have been showing:

                      May  7 18:00:48 office pppd[24483]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
May  7 18:00:48 office pppd[24483]: Connect: ppp0 <-->
May  7 18:00:48 office pppd[24483]: Overriding mtu 1500 to 1474
May  7 18:00:48 office pppd[24483]: Overriding mru 1500 to mtu value 1474
May  7 18:00:50 office pppd[24483]: Unsupported protocol 'IPv6 Control Protocol' (0x8057) received
May  7 18:00:50 office pppd[24483]: Unsupported protocol 'Compression Control Protocol' (0x80fd) received
May  7 18:00:51 office pppd[24483]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
May  7 18:00:51 office pppd[24483]: local  IP address 10.255.255.0
May  7 18:00:51 office pppd[24483]: remote IP address 192.168.4.10
May  7 18:03:45 office pppd[24483]: Overriding mtu 1500 to 1474
May  7 18:03:45 office pppd[24483]: Overriding mru 1500 to mtu value 1474

                      Any other ideas?

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @Romo
                        last edited by

                        @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                        Been playing for the value for a while and still no luck. I am still seeing packet loss.

                        Based on what @scottalanmiller said, I would not expect MTU to be involved.

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                        • RomoR
                          Romo @JaredBusch
                          last edited by

                          Ok even weirder behavior now, currently I am getting steady pings for a very short period of time and then the connections just seems to die.

                          MTU is currently set to 1472

                          Pinging 10.10.10.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.10.10.1: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=127
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                          During that initial time, when the connection has just established web browsing also works close to normal speeds I would say. Really strange behavior.

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch
                            last edited by JaredBusch

                            I never have a problem with my VPN on my iPhone.

                            May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared xl2tpd[4722]: Connection established to 172.58.142.195, 50961.  Local: 48550, Remote: 4 (ref=0/0).  LNS session is 'default'
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared xl2tpd[4722]: Call established with 172.58.142.195, Local: 3582, Remote: 2938, Serial: 1
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared pppd[8432]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Connect: ppp0 <-->
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Overriding mtu 1500 to 1492
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Overriding mru 1500 to mtu value 1492
May  7 19:42:34 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Overriding mtu 1500 to 1492
May  7 19:42:35 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets has world and/or group access
May  7 19:42:35 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Unsupported protocol 'IPv6 Control Protocol' (0x8057) received
May  7 19:42:35 bna-jared pppd[8432]: local  IP address 10.255.255.0
May  7 19:42:35 bna-jared pppd[8432]: remote IP address 10.254.203.2
May  7 19:43:05 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Connection terminated: no multilink.
May  7 19:43:05 bna-jared pppd[8432]: Modem hangup

                            Here is my config.

                            set vpn l2tp remote-access authentication local-users username jbusch password 'SmegOff'
set vpn l2tp remote-access authentication mode local
set vpn l2tp remote-access authentication require mschap-v2
set vpn l2tp remote-access client-ip-pool start 10.254.203.2
set vpn l2tp remote-access client-ip-pool stop 10.254.203.10
set vpn l2tp remote-access dhcp-interface eth0
set vpn l2tp remote-access dns-servers server-1 8.8.8.8
set vpn l2tp remote-access dns-servers server-2 8.8.4.4
set vpn l2tp remote-access idle 1800
set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings authentication mode pre-shared-secret
set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings authentication pre-shared-secret SmegOff
set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings ike-lifetime 3600
set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings lifetime 3600
set vpn l2tp remote-access mtu 1492

                            The IP range is not used elsewhere in my router at all.

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                            • RomoR
                              Romo
                              last edited by

                              This was working properly until we switched to ATT. It is still properly reaching the router and also authenticating correctly to the radius server. It's just after connecting it completely craps out.

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                              • jt1001001J
                                jt1001001
                                last edited by

                                Switching to AT&T; what is the new carrier equipment? Did you go from cable modem to fiber?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @jt1001001
                                  last edited by

                                  @jt1001001 said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                                  Switching to AT&T; what is the new carrier equipment? Did you go from cable modem to fiber?

                                  Yes

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                                  • jt1001001J
                                    jt1001001
                                    last edited by

                                    Whe we switched one of our sites from then Cox cable modem to AT&T fiber we had a similar issue with our Cisco ASA's (at the time) not establishing the tunnel consistently. We had to turn on WebVPN on the ASA (wasn't on before) and turn off NAT-T then it established fine. Not sure of similar setting on Ubiquiti devices. I'll check my notes was years ago may have another setting to try

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                                    • RomoR
                                      Romo
                                      last edited by

                                      So two further days of usage and the vpn has been working properly again. At the end the day, I had reverted back to original settings so everything just apparently started to work back on its own??

                                      Really not sure what was causing the issue.

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                                      • wrx7mW
                                        wrx7m @Romo
                                        last edited by

                                        @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                                        So two further days of usage and the vpn has been working properly again. At the end the day, I had reverted back to original settings so everything just apparently started to work back on its own??

                                        Really not sure what was causing the issue.

                                        That is irritating that you don't know for sure what the fix was. Hopefully, it remains solid.

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                                        • RomoR
                                          Romo
                                          last edited by

                                          This same issue is happening today once again, VPN is connecting properly but I can't properly reach anything properly on the local lan or the internet.

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                                            1337 @Romo
                                            last edited by

                                            @Romo said in Packet loss when connected to L2TP/IPsec VPn:

                                            This same issue is happening today once again, VPN is connecting properly but I can't properly reach anything properly on the local lan or the internet.

                                            You should just buy a new edge router to exclude any hardware issues.

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