I have a problem with repo-broswer and checkout with TortoiseSVN(1.7) over VPN(IPsec). For example when I want to check-out repository, all begins OK, but after few seconds(sometimes 10 files, sometimes 20, 50) speed drops to 0 Bytes/s and everything stops. In this moment I can not ping server with SVN server, or anything else. But when I close checkout window after few seconds everything is OK. Other SVN actions allways works fine(update, commit, revision graph, log), also I can download files from shares,… The only thing which does not work over my VPN is really SVN repo-browser and checkout… communication with SVN server on LAN without VPN works fine.
Please help me.
Thanks
EDIT:
server: Windows server 2003, Visual SVN server 2.5
client: Windows 7 Ultimate, Tortoise SVN 1.7.7
Best Answer
The problem you report is reminiscent of some MTU problems that I have heard about, but assuming that you are on windows, you can try the following troubleshooting steps;
try to ping the server, and gently increase the packet size until you get failures;
show your mtu settings like so;
Here are some tutorials, if MTU turns out to the be the issue;
http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a62/troubleshooting-mtu-path-discovery-issues-over-a-vpn-tunnel.aspx
http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/08/troubleshooting-path-mtu-problems/