From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dimitri GOURDON Subject: Re: Iptables find invalid packets Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:23:06 +0200 Message-ID: <48848DBA.40805@itool.com> References: <48847F16.8040604@itool.com> <488487E3.2020906@bock.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <488487E3.2020906@bock.nu> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: Bernhard Bock , netfilter@vger.kernel.org I will try but don't believe it : I've reproduce the same behavior in my lab with only 1 client... so... = I=20 try ;) Dimitri Bernhard Bock a =E9crit : > Hi Dimitri, > > Dimitri GOURDON wrote: >> A lot of TCP packets with FIN or RST flags (all I think) from client= s=20 >> are dropped by Iptables as state INVALID. The consequence is that I=20 >> have a lot of connection in FIN_WAIT state (shown by netstat) on the= =20 >> 2 web servers... > [...] >> Is someone can help me ??? > > Sounds a bit like the problem I've asked about a few days ago. Try to= =20 > increase the hashsize of nf_conntrack. My INVALID packets vanished=20 > after this (at least as long as I wasn't using conntrackd for statefu= l=20 > failover). > > best regards > Bernhard