iptables suddently stop working

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On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:54 pm, Andrew Smith wrote:

> > Okay, so this means you have 156 connections being tracked through your
> >  firewall (seems a perfectly reasonable number for 200 users), with
> > capacity  for up to 65424 connections before the box gets overloaded.
> >
> > If you ever got more than 65424 connections from 200 users it would
> > indicate  a serious problem (eg Nimda on the machines...) - I would
> > never expect that  to happen.
>
> Never heard of CounterStrike?

No, not really - I assume it's a game of some sort, but I know nothing about 
it.

> Only takes a few users to do a 'get server list' at the same time to
> fill a conntrack table that size.

Doesn't sound like a very well-written application to me.

Antony.

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