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From: Fabien Germain <fabien.germain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Clearing conntrack? Extending size of conntrack?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:34:07 +0200
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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