Re: Strange Contracker problem in conjuction with Cisco Content Switch

2002-03-29 Thread Patrick Schaaf
Two questions regardin this strange effect: a) Is there a performance penalty for this huge number of connections in contracker? Yes. This has been discussed, with possible remedies (hashsize parameter to ip_conntrack) mentioned, about a week ago. See the thread at

Re: Strange Contracker problem in conjuction with Cisco Content Switch

2002-03-29 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:07:54AM +0100, Martin Sperl wrote: Hi! Two questions regardin this strange effect: a) Is there a performance penalty for this huge number of connections in contracker? not if you widen the hash table (see list archive on discussions about that). b) Why does it

Re: Strange Contracker problem in conjuction with Cisco Content Switch

2002-03-29 Thread Patrick Schaaf
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:59:58AM +0100, Harald Welte wrote: b) Why does it occure primarily with the Cisco Content Switch. The numbers were much lower before utilising the content switch! So the CSS is ACK flooding! Is there a strange interaction between the CSS and

Re: BUG: max number of expected connections

2002-03-29 Thread Jozsef Kadlecsik
On 28 Mar 2002, Frank wrote: and this BUG appeared again today but with Kernel 2.4.19-pre4-ac2 and Iptables CVS from 27.03.02. Applied all pending-patches cleanly but newnat would so i forced it and compiled fine. Still, there is no proof that this is a bug. Mar 28 01:26:32 Frankux kernel:

Re: TPROXY and original dest address question

2002-03-29 Thread Balazs Scheidler
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:55:25PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: an entry is removed from this table when 1) the socket associated with the entry is destroyed (iff a socket is associated with an entry) Ok. So there is integration between the tproxy table and the host IP stack

Spare time - log-level

2002-03-29 Thread Bart Theunissen
Hi, I have some spare time and I want to contribute to the netfilter project. I saw on the TODO list that the 'log-level save/restore' needs some investigation. That seems like a good opportunity to get familiar with the netfilter code. Can someone give me a bit more info about what is going