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From: Bernhard Bock <mailinglists@bock.nu>
To: Dimitri GOURDON <dgourdon@itool.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Iptables find invalid packets
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:58:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488487E3.2020906@bock.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48847F16.8040604@itool.com>

Hi Dimitri,

Dimitri GOURDON wrote:
> A lot of TCP packets with FIN or RST flags (all I think) from clients 
> are dropped by Iptables as state INVALID. The consequence is that I have 
> a lot of connection in FIN_WAIT state (shown by netstat) on the 2 web 
> servers...
[...]
> Is someone can help me ???

Sounds a bit like the problem I've asked about a few days ago. Try to 
increase the hashsize of nf_conntrack. My INVALID packets vanished after 
this (at least as long as I wasn't using conntrackd for stateful failover).

best regards
Bernhard

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 12:20 Iptables find invalid packets Dimitri GOURDON
2008-07-21 12:58 ` Bernhard Bock [this message]
2008-07-21 13:23   ` Dimitri GOURDON
     [not found]   ` <48849E47.30901@itool.com>
2008-07-21 14:39     ` Bernhard Bock
2008-07-21 15:01       ` Dimitri GOURDON
2008-07-21 15:44       ` Dimitri GOURDON
2008-07-21 16:02         ` Bernhard Bock
2008-07-21 13:06 ` Vladislav Kurz
     [not found]   ` <48849F8F.70103@itool.com>
2008-07-21 14:49     ` Vladislav Kurz
     [not found]       ` <4884A414.10408@itool.com>
2008-07-21 15:11         ` Vladislav Kurz

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