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From: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@digitalpath.net>
Subject: Re: Conntrack table editing utility
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:48:51 -0700
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:54:48AM +0200, J=F6rg Harmuth wrote:
> srg schrieb:
> > there is a file (don't remember the name) under /proc that have all
> > contrack entries
>=20
> /proc/net/ip_conntrack

This is fine and all for viewing, but what is being requested is a utility =
to
"edit" (arbitrarily remove) ip_conntrack entries.   Situations arrive when =
I'd
like to expire a cached conntrack entry sooner.  There's a way to do this w=
ith
TCP connections, but not UDP or other protocols as far as I can tell.

This would be really handy!

Ray