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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:02:27 -0400
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 00:01, www.piratehosting.net wrote:
> ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.
> 
> i have been using
> echo "4008192" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> echo 4008192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
> to increase the limits to avoid this dropping of packets.
> can i just clear the list from
> /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> or something
> 
> some info
> ip_conntrack_ftp       70576  0
> ip_conntrack_irc       70064  0
> ip_conntrack           24968  4
> iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_irc,ipt_state

how much physical RAM is in this machine and how many simultaneous
connections are you trying to support?

-j

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Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>