I have built a firewall on 2.4.8-17 kernel which has 2 Mb of traffic going in an out of it. I recently added a line : iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISED,RELATED -J ACCEPT Now I can see the lines "ip_conntrack : table full, dropping packet" in my kern.log. Does dropping packets means that it is actually dropping the packets or just truncating the file /proc/net/ip_conntrack , does this affect my client's connections??? -- Best regards, Vicky Shrestha System Administrator WorldLink Communications Pvt.Ltd Jawalakhel, Kathmandu, Nepal.