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From:   Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nf_conntrack: introduce conntrack
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Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > openvswitch supports per zone limits already, using nf_conncount
> > infrastructure.
> This path limits the UNREPLIED conntrack entries. If we SYN flood one
> zone, the zone will consume all entries in table, which state
> SYN_SENT.
> The openvswitch limits only the +est conntrack.

Why?  Can't it be fixed to work properly?

> > iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -m connlimit \
> >    --connlimit-above 1000 --connlimit-mask 0 -j REJECT

This should work for the synflood case, too.