From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohamed Eldesoky Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_max vs ip_conntrack Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:30:43 +0300 Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1403218a04093004305ae38256@mail.gmail.com> References: <4154A112.20308@suse.cz> <1096376802.28905.38.camel@nostromo.bgsecm.com> <1403218a040928074868a3a36@mail.gmail.com> <200409281119.36045.Alistair@nerdnet.ca> Reply-To: Mohamed Eldesoky Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200409281119.36045.Alistair@nerdnet.ca> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Alistair Tonner Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Well, I know its function, just wanted to make sure. As there is a small network misconfiguration that I wanted to know its root= . Thanks for the help. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:19:35 -0400, Alistair Tonner w= rote: > On September 28, 2004 10:48 am, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote: > > Well, I want to make sure that it remembers only connections that > > passes THROUGH it !! >=20 > Are you saying you don't want to track local connections? >=20 > This file keeps track of anything that *_conntrack_* would watch. > As far as I know this includes local connections -- >=20 > If you are accepting any connections locally, they are very likel= y in this > table. >=20 > I've seen at least one discussion about breaking this up into dif= ferent > files. That gets messy very quicky from a code point of view, as well as > from a logic point of view. I certainly prefer the idea of having one pl= ace > to track connections. >=20 > Alistair Tonner >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > > > > On 28 Sep 2004 16:27:53 +0200, Jose Maria Lopez wr= ote: > > > El mar, 28 de 09 de 2004 a las 09:59, Mohamed Eldesoky escribi=F3: > > > > But still, > > > > The /proc/net/ip_conntrack should contain all connections tracked b= y > > > > that firewall (ie, passing through the firewall), am I right ?? > > > > > > Yes, and it will remember the connections made for a time. It's > > > a list of all the connections the conntrack system have seen, and > > > it's used to check the established and related connections. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez > > > Director Tecnico de bgSEC > > > jkerouac@bgsec.com > > > bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos > > > http://www.bgsec.com > > > ESPA=D1A > > > > > > The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to li= ve, > > > mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time= , > > > the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, b= urn > > > like fabulous yellow Roman candles. > > > -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" >=20 >=20 --=20 Mohamed Eldesoky www.eldesoky.net RHCE