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From: Stephen J Smoogen <smoogen@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:19:02 -0600
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To: "www.piratehosting.net" <webmazter@gmail.com>
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www.piratehosting.net wrote:
> 512mb ram
> about 150,000 connections
> its a ircd server with 15 clients at 1024 users each.
> i have to keep moving it up as the conntrack doesnt empty
> 


Depending on the linux kernel you are using.. this is a 'known' bug. Red 
Hat Linux for the 7,8,9 series has a patch from netfilter experimental 
that does not let go connections. There is also another kernel version 
that seems to have this issue (2.4.18?) but I cant remember which one it 
was. Putting on the latest 2.4.x kernel with a clean netfilter patch 
fixed the problem on our boxes.

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