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From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack limit && stateless firewalls
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:55:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <876ef97a05021106551fb5dacb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.CYG.4.62.0502110943440.2348@MI340a.chem.mathsci.usna.edu>

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:49:40 -0500, Kevin Van Workum <vanw@usna.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my firewall where packets are being dropped due
> to the ip_conntrack limit. I could up the limit, but my users need 30k+
> connections simultaneously and with the minimum overhead. And I only have
> 1 firewall box. So I'd like to disable or by-pass ip_conntrack some how to
> avoid dropped packets and reduce over head. How can I do this, and more
> importantly, would it be helpful.

You can use the NOTRACK target on the traffic that is causing the
problem (which will disable using ip_conntrack on that traffic), or
you can decompile conntrack altogether. The latter would basically
make the firewall stateless. man iptables for more info on using
NOTRACK.

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[ Tobias DiPasquale ]
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-11 14:49 ip_conntrack limit && stateless firewalls Kevin Van Workum
2005-02-11 14:55 ` Tobias DiPasquale [this message]
2005-02-13 12:22   ` Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez

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