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From: Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: HELP: Conntrack table filling up !!!
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:35:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030102203552.GC10404@miggy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007b01c2b295$d8422540$0100a8c0@zultys.com>

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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:33:36AM -0800, Ranjeet Shetye wrote:
> Actually, the ICMP problem that I have seen does not go away with a
> larger ip_conntrack_max. The extra table space just gets filled up.
> Agreed, that the ICMP packets I used to flood the iptables conntrack
> mechanism did not strictly comply with ICMP RFC standards, but then
> which cracker cares about standards ? :( That's why I asked, are you
> seeing malformed ICMP packets ?

  Fair enough.  Check out if the unclean match module catches these bad
ICMP packets then:

	iptables -A INPUT -i ${PUBINT} --match unclean -j LOG --log-level info --log-prefix "fwr-unclean "

-Ath
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-02 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-23 19:00 HELP: Conntrack table filling up !!! Mircea Ciocan
2002-12-31 20:54 ` Ranjeet Shetye
2002-12-31 23:50   ` Athan
2003-01-02 19:33     ` Ranjeet Shetye
2003-01-02 20:35       ` Athan [this message]

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