From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: conntrack_ftp: partial 227
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:48:47 +0200
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To: Mohamed Eldesoky <eldesoky.lists@gmail.com>
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Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> kernel: conntrack_ftp: partial 227  1874320463+13
> 
> What does this line mean in the /var/log/messages ???

The FTP conntrack helper has found a partial matching when parsing a 
request to start a connection in passive mode (ie. needs missing 
information to track that connection, malformed packets, ...). In that 
case such packet is silently drop.

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Pablo