Behaviour on MTU problem
M. Dietrich
mdt at emdete.de
Mon Aug 30 18:43:03 UTC 2021
Hi friends of Wireguard,
i am neither a network guru nor a kernel hacker and after all
i had no time to fully investigate the case. so please read
with a grain of salt.
i had my notebook in a wifi network lately that seemed to have
some MTU size problems. download worked fine while uploads
blocked for bigger packages. when i set the MTU down to 1200
on the wg interface the same upload worked fine.
this was obviously a problem of that very wifi network and is
not related to wg at all, the dhcp answer did not even contain
any MTU hints, so 1500 was assumed.
anyway the kernel locked up. commands like `ip` or `wg-quick
down ...` get stuck and ^C oder even a `kill -9 ...` did not
end the processes. any access to the wg interface blocked.
my question is if that scenario (misconfigured MTU size in the
"outer network") is tested and works fine. i know that MTU
size problem lead to lockups (that's why i immediatly came to
that conclusion) but never saw such a hard lockup related to
commands like `ip`.
if my assumption is just stupid let me know. if not i would
further investigate the case, setup a test scenario and burn
some time. what do you think?
best regards, michael
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