Hello!
I have 2 Cisco 2801 series routers (one at our corporate office, and one at our branch location). I have setup a site to site vpn over an IPSec tunnel. The tunnel works perfectly fine in most ways. I can ping any address from either location at the other location. I can browse to any share on any computer. I can copy files that are approx. 3KB or smaller to PCs at the other location. I CANNOT, however, copy files larger than approx. 3KB. I get an error message after about 30 seconds that says "Cannot copy (name of file): The specified network name is no longer available." I can then take that exact file, remove enough information from it to take it below approx.
3KB, copy the file again, and it finishes in no time flat. I am sure this is a result of the MTU fragmentation.Oh, the best part: This only happens on some computers. From certain computers, it doesn't matter what the size of the file being copied, it works perfect, other computers, it is extremely consistant. I have found a way to, on a PC by PC basis, resolve this issue (but would like a blanket resolution)...here's the resolution to fix one PC at a time: open regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System \\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Tcpip\\Parameters and create a new DWORD called EnablePMTUDiscovery and set the value to 0. Restart.
Is there a way to get this same result by making a change to the router. I have tried these two things with no avail:
Router# config t Router(config)# int tunnel0 Router(config-if)# ip mtu 600
&Router(config-if)# ip tcp adjust-mss 600
Any Ideas?!?!?!? Thanks guys!