On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:31:36PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > Are you running a firewall with iptables connection tracking?
Well, yes. I didn't know iptstate would work otherwise. > Are the > extra connections (that don't show up in netstat) from internal addresses to > external addresses? (i.e. neither end of the connection is your firewall's > IP addr?) No. They are all external connections to port 80. Nothing about them looks particularly invalid, but I can't correlate them. Not entirely anyway. > If so, then that's normal. netstat only shows connections from the local > machine. iptstate reports the state of the netfilter connection tracking > stuff. Yes, one of the things I am wondering is if it remembers connections for a longer time for some reason. Still doesn't figure because I have them sitting in ESTABLISHED when there is no corresponding one on the netstat.

