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From: Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>
Subject: Re: HELP: Conntrack table filling up !!!
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:35:53 +0000
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:33:36AM -0800, Ranjeet Shetye wrote:
> Actually, the ICMP problem that I have seen does not go away with a
> larger ip_conntrack_max. The extra table space just gets filled up.
> Agreed, that the ICMP packets I used to flood the iptables conntrack
> mechanism did not strictly comply with ICMP RFC standards, but then
> which cracker cares about standards ? :( That's why I asked, are you
> seeing malformed ICMP packets ?

  Fair enough.  Check out if the unclean match module catches these bad
ICMP packets then:

	iptables -A INPUT -i ${PUBINT} --match unclean -j LOG --log-level info --l=
og-prefix "fwr-unclean "

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