diff --git a/Changes.rst b/Changes.rst
index 67a23c792..79b79d608 100644
--- a/Changes.rst
+++ b/Changes.rst
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ User-visible Changes
 - Option ``--nobind`` is default when ``--client`` or ``--pull`` is used in the configuration
 - :code:`link_mtu` parameter is removed from environment or replaced with 0 when scripts are
   called with parameters. This parameter is unreliable and no longer internally calculated.
+- the default of ``--tun-mtu`` has been changed to ``--tun 1420 1500`` when
+  running in server mode. This will create an mtu mismatch with older client
+  (newer client allow pushable mtu) but the most common server platforms
+  (Linux and FreeBSD) allow receiving 1500 byte packets even tun-mtu is set
+  to 1420, still allowing larger packets from client with 1500 byte mtu.
 
 Overview of changes in 2.5
 ==========================
diff --git a/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst b/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst
index 5b2f84707..2e4fff5df 100644
--- a/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst
+++ b/doc/man-sections/vpn-network-options.rst
@@ -500,21 +500,45 @@ routing.
   arguments of ``--ifconfig`` to mean "address netmask", no longer "local
   remote".
 
---tun-mtu n
-  Take the TUN device MTU to be **n** and derive the link MTU from it
-  (default :code:`1500`). In most cases, you will probably want to leave
-  this parameter set to its default value.
+--tun-mtu args
+
+  Valid syntaxes:
+  ::
+
+      tun-mtu tun-mtu
+      tun-mtu tun-mtu occ-mtu
+
+  Take the TUN device MTU to be ``tun-mtu`` and derive the link MTU from it.
+  In most cases, you will probably want to leave this parameter set to
+  its default value.
+
+  Starting with OpenVPN 2.6 in when running server mode (``--mode server``,
+  ``--server`` or ``-server-ipv6`` options present in the configuration),
+  the default will be 1420 for the tun mtu size and 1500 for the ``occ-mtu``.
+
+  The OCC MTU can be used to avoid warnings about mismatched MTU from
+  clients. If :code:`occ-mtu` is not specified, it will to default to the
+  tun-mtu
 
   The MTU (Maximum Transmission Units) is the maximum datagram size in
   bytes that can be sent unfragmented over a particular network path.
   OpenVPN requires that packets on the control and data channels be sent
   unfragmented.
 
+  It is generally advisable to set the tun MTU low enough that with the
+  encapsulation overhead is lower than the MTU of the network that is used
+  to transport the VPN packets.
+
   MTU problems often manifest themselves as connections which hang during
   periods of active usage.
 
-  It's best to use the ``--fragment`` and/or ``--mssfix`` options to deal
-  with MTU sizing issues.
+  If lowering the tun MTU to avoid MTU related problems (e.g. when tap is used
+  and an MTU of 1500 is rdquired), the ``--fragment`` and/or ``--mssfix``
+  options can be also used to deal with MTU sizing issues.
+
+  Note: Depending on the platform, the operating system allows to receive
+  packets larger than ``tun-mtu`` (e.g. Linux and FreeBSD) but other platforms
+  (like macOS) limit received packets to the same size as the MTU.
 
 --tun-mtu-extra n
   Assume that the TUN/TAP device might return as many as ``n`` bytes more
diff --git a/src/openvpn/options.c b/src/openvpn/options.c
index 9a0634a5e..69c839fb6 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/options.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/options.c
@@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ init_options(struct options *o, const bool init_gc)
     o->status_file_version = 1;
     o->ce.bind_local = true;
     o->ce.tun_mtu = TUN_MTU_DEFAULT;
+    o->ce.occ_mtu = 0;
     o->ce.link_mtu = LINK_MTU_DEFAULT;
     o->ce.mtu_discover_type = -1;
     o->ce.mssfix = 0;
@@ -3031,6 +3032,16 @@ options_postprocess_mutate_ce(struct options *o, struct connection_entry *ce)
         if (!ce->tun_mtu_defined && !ce->link_mtu_defined)
         {
             ce->tun_mtu_defined = true;
+            if (o->mode == MODE_SERVER)
+            {
+                /* If we are running in P2MP mode we default to a MTU
+                 * that is low enough by default to fit into a 1492
+                 * MTU UDP IPv6 packet:
+                 *
+                 */
+                ce->tun_mtu = frame_calculate_default_mtu(o);
+                ce->occ_mtu = TUN_MTU_DEFAULT;
+            }
         }
         if ((dev == DEV_TYPE_TAP) && !ce->tun_mtu_extra_defined)
         {
@@ -4018,7 +4029,15 @@ options_string(const struct options *o,
     buf_printf(&out, ",link-mtu %u",
                (unsigned int) calc_options_string_link_mtu(o, frame));
 
-    buf_printf(&out, ",tun-mtu %d", frame->tun_mtu);
+    if (o->ce.occ_mtu != 0)
+    {
+        buf_printf(&out, ",tun-mtu %d", o->ce.occ_mtu);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        buf_printf(&out, ",tun-mtu %d", frame->tun_mtu);
+    }
+
     buf_printf(&out, ",proto %s",  proto_remote(o->ce.proto, remote));
 
     bool p2p_nopull = o->mode == MODE_POINT_TO_POINT && !PULL_DEFINED(o);
@@ -6262,11 +6281,19 @@ add_option(struct options *options,
         options->ce.link_mtu = positive_atoi(p[1]);
         options->ce.link_mtu_defined = true;
     }
-    else if (streq(p[0], "tun-mtu") && p[1] && !p[2])
+    else if (streq(p[0], "tun-mtu") && p[1] && !p[3])
     {
         VERIFY_PERMISSION(OPT_P_MTU|OPT_P_CONNECTION);
         options->ce.tun_mtu = positive_atoi(p[1]);
         options->ce.tun_mtu_defined = true;
+        if (p[2])
+        {
+            options->ce.occ_mtu = positive_atoi(p[2]);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            options->ce.occ_mtu = 0;
+        }
     }
     else if (streq(p[0], "tun-mtu-extra") && p[1] && !p[2])
     {
diff --git a/src/openvpn/options.h b/src/openvpn/options.h
index c2937dc37..1085a462a 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/options.h
+++ b/src/openvpn/options.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ struct connection_entry
     const char *socks_proxy_authfile;
 
     int tun_mtu;         /* MTU of tun device */
+    int occ_mtu;         /* if non-null, this is the MTU we announce to peers in OCC */
     bool tun_mtu_defined; /* true if user overriding parm with command line option */
     int tun_mtu_extra;
     bool tun_mtu_extra_defined;
diff --git a/src/openvpn/push.c b/src/openvpn/push.c
index 63257348a..463957a82 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/push.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/push.c
@@ -603,6 +603,22 @@ prepare_push_reply(struct context *c, struct gc_arena *gc,
     {
         push_option_fmt(gc, push_list, M_USAGE, "key-derivation tls-ekm");
     }
+
+    /* Push our mtu to the peer if it supports pushable MTUs */
+    int client_max_mtu = 0;
+    const char *iv_mtu = extract_var_peer_info(tls_multi->peer_info, "IV_MTU=", gc);
+
+    if (iv_mtu &&  sscanf(iv_mtu, "%d", &client_max_mtu) == 1)
+    {
+        push_option_fmt(gc, push_list, M_USAGE, "tun-mtu %d", o->ce.tun_mtu);
+        if (client_max_mtu < o->ce.tun_mtu)
+        {
+            msg(M_WARN, "Warning reported maximum MTU from client (%d) is lower "
+                "than MTU used on the server (%d). Add tun-max-mtu %d "
+                "to client configuration.", client_max_mtu,
+                o->ce.tun_mtu, o->ce.tun_mtu);
+        }
+    }
     return true;
 }