Douglas Diniz wrote: > I'm facing the same problem. I'm working in a embedded system with > kernel 2.6.20-6. When I send a ping (or any other protocol) through > eth0 to eth1 (or vice versa) the conntrack count isn't decremented. If > I send the ping through any other interface (eth0 to wifi, eth1 to > wifi, wifi to eth0 and wifi to eth1) I have no problem. > The problem seems to be only between the ethernet interfaces. > I debug the netfilter and I saw that when the problem occurs the "use" > variable inside conntract structure in > 1, so this variable is only > decremented by 1, not reaching in 0, and then the destroy_conntrack > function is not called. > > So I think that the problem is more low level, and some events aren't > reaching netfilter, and the "use"variable isn't decremented properly. > > This could be a problem with the ethernet driver? Yes, although you'd likely notice other effects like running out of memory if it was leaking the packets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
