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From: Fabien Germain <fabien.germain@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Clearing conntrack? Extending size of conntrack?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:34:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20a523fb0509291534e7614b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433C67D4.9070907@cp.centennialcollege.ca>

Hi,

On 9/30/05, James Strickland <jstic04@cp.centennialcollege.ca> wrote:
> Hello, usually after about a day up uptime on my router, the ppp
> connection to my isp stays alive, but packets are not forwarded and
> nated through wan/lan interfaces.  My guess is that the conntrack is
> getting too large over this time (my brothers node uses nonsense like
> kazaa and bear share).  Is there a way to increase the conntrack size,
> or to clear it via /proc?

You can set an higher value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max.
And to check the number of current tracked connections : cat
/proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l

Fabien


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29 22:16 Clearing conntrack? Extending size of conntrack? James Strickland
2005-09-29 22:34 ` Fabien Germain [this message]
2005-09-30 12:39   ` Henrik Nordstrom

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