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 The last option is somewhat of a last resort because it's not universally respected by RADIUS servers. However, what it does do is to pass a hint to a RADIUS server to request that the RADIUS server use a maximum of 1100 bytes for the RADIUS packet. This would mean that, with the additional headers provided by the TCP stack that the packets should never be fragmented.  The last option is somewhat of a last resort because it's not universally respected by RADIUS servers. However, what it does do is to pass a hint to a RADIUS server to request that the RADIUS server use a maximum of 1100 bytes for the RADIUS packet. This would mean that, with the additional headers provided by the TCP stack that the packets should never be fragmented. 
  
-The caveat is, as stated, that different RADIUS servers react differently to seeing Framed-MTU and all equipment (routers, servers, firewalls) in the path would have to respect it. It certainly can't be relied on as the solution.+The caveat is, as stated, that different RADIUS servers react differently to seeing Framed-MTU and all servers in the path would have to respect it. It certainly can't be relied on as the solution. 
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 +Cisco ISE has a maximum MTU size of 1002 bytes, this can not be changed and ISE doesn't take any notice of the Framed-MTU attribute. 
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 +Aruba Clearpass has a default maximum MTU size of 1100, which should be fine. The value can be changed. Clearpass will send a Framed-MTU attribute out to authentication servers. 
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 +Microsoft NPS has a default MTU size of 1500, which is too big, and does not respond to the Framed-MTU if it receives it. You can add a Framed-MTU attribute and set its value via the Network Policy that is handling the authentication of your users - and that Framed-MTU will be used by NPS to manage the size of the packets sent back to your remote user. We suggest setting it to 1100. 
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