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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: DDoS attack causing bad effect on conntrack searches
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:44:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Eric, I wonder if we run into some kind of issue on 32-bit systems
because we always lose a bit of the conntrack hash value when we store
it into the 'nulls' area?

Wouldn't that make the "get_nulls_value(n) != hash" fail?