Re: nf_conntrack_count versus '/proc/net/nf_conntrack | wc -l' count

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On Monday 2010-02-15 18:29, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>Afi Gjermund wrote:
>> 
>> I am running into an odd issue where the kernel begins to drop packets
>> because the connection tracking table is full. (I am running
>> 2.6.26.5).
>> 
>> A 'cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count' says 4096.  But if
>> I do a 'cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack | wc -l' then it says 4.
>
>Conntracks might exist and not be in the global table anymore,
>f.i. when referenced by a packet. The difference in your case
>seems pretty extreme, so I'd guess that packets are leaked
>somewhere.

So, that would make for 4092 expected connections then?

Afi, what would `conntrack -L expect` give?
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