VPN site-to-site betweem Cisco 1841 and SonicWall 170

Jan 02, 2006 2 Replies

Hi,



I'm trying to connect a Cisco 1841 to Sonicwall 170.



The tunnel is establishing successfully, but I can't ping computers from any LAN to the other side of the tunnel.



When running Tunnel Diagnostics on Cisco SDM I get the following report:


------------------------------------------------------------ VPN Troubleshooting Report Details



Router Details



Attribute Value Router Model 1841 Image Name c1841-advsecurityk9-mz.124-5.bin IOS Version 12.4(5)



Test Activity Summary



Activity Status Checking the tunnel status... Up



Test Activity Details



Activity Status Checking the tunnel status... Up Encapsulation :0 Decapsulation :0 Send Error :0 Received Error :0



Troubleshooting Results Failure Reason(s) A ping with data size of this VPN interface MTU size and 'Do not Fragment' bit set to the other end VPN device is failing. This may happen if there is a lesser MTU network which drops the 'Do not fragment' packets



Recommended Action(s)



1)Contact your ISP/Administrator to resolve this issue.
2)Issue the command 'crypto ipsec df-bit clear' under the VPN interface to avoid packets drop due to fragmentation.

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On the Sonicwall side, I see this message whenever I try to access the other side: Message - "Malformed or unhandled IP packet dropped" Source - , 0, WAN Destination - Notes - IP Protocol 51"



Do you have any ideas what can I do to fix the tunnel?



Thanks a lot in advance.



Amit Gatenyo



Hello,

there might be a problem with the MSS size configured on your local LAN interface. Try and set this to 1350:

interface FastEthernet0/0 ip tcp adjust-mss 1350

Regards,

Naz snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com a =E9crit :

Sadly, it didn't work.

I've set it on the interface that is connected to the LAN (FastEthernet0/0) but it didn't do the trick, the tunnel is still being created successfully, but I can't ping computers on the remote LAN.

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