From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alberto Sierra <albertux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: about ip_conntrack_buckets
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:50:50 -0600
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>>On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 14:04, Alberto Sierra wrote:
>> i was reading some netfilter tunning article and found a comment about
>> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_buckets but when i issued a
>> cat to check the value of the file, the system said it didn't exist,
>> it this bad? what could happen if not specified?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Alberto

>kernel version?

>the ip_conntrack_buckets variable appears after applying:

> submitted/76_conntrack_bucket_sysctl.patch

>from POM, circa Thu Nov 27 06:28:59 2003...  sounds like the kernel you
>are running does not have this patch applied to it.

im using version 2.4.22, with the iprange patch only, i found the
ip_conntrack_buckets default value on the dmesg file, but, what is the
submitted/76_conntrack_bucket_sysctl.patch? i can't find information
on this patch on the netfilter page.do i really need it?

thanks.