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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: how to clear the conntrack table!
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:31:30 +0200
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To: Eicke Friedrich <tady@gmx.net>
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In case your running an older kernel (before -pre9), try the latest -rc
kernel or submitted/70_ip-conntrack-expect-drop-refcnt-combined.patch
from patch-o-matic.

Bye,
Patrick

Eicke Friedrich wrote:

>
> Harald Welte wrote:
>
>> unfortunately there is currently no other way than to unload and
>> reload the ip_conntrack module :(
>
> I've tried this a couple of times. The module seems to get deleted
> (lsmod still shows ip_conntrack but as deleted) but rmmod does NOT
> finish. It grabs 100% CPU for minutes. I had to reboot the box then.
> Any hints?
>
> Regards,
> Eicke.