Hello I have a border router that does dynamic and asymetric routing. Now, after upgrading from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20 yesterday I got the following message in my syslog twice this night: kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. The /proc/net/ip_conntrack table has 36911 entries, mostly all [UNREPLIED]. I'm now wondering, why ip_conntrack comes into play at all - I'm thought, I was using it only for my INPUT table but the connections in /proc/net/ip_conntrack are definitely ones that are going from one ethX to another ethX getting filtered only in FORWARD and only by source and destination IP. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max was at 32767 and has now temporarily raised to 65520 although I don't want to have conntrack for forwarding at all. Oh, it's grown to 36911 while typing, so I be happy about answers :) bye, -christian- # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516548 274016 242532 0 12500 128248 -/+ buffers/cache: 133268 383280 # lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted ipt_state 608 1 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3200 2 (autoclean) ip_nat_ftp 3424 0 (unused) iptable_nat 19348 1 [ip_nat_ftp] ip_conntrack_ftp 4096 1 [ip_nat_ftp] iptable_filter 1760 1 (autoclean) ip_tables 13184 6 [ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_nat iptable_filter] dummy 1088 1 eepro100 18444 3 mii 2320 0 [eepro100] rtc 6012 0 (autoclean) unix 13892 16 (autoclean) relevant Kernel config: # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=m CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT is not set CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES=y # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y CONFIG_ARPD=y # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y # # IP: Netfilter Configuration # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_DSCP=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH_ESP is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LENGTH=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_HELPER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES is not set # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set # CONFIG_ATM is not set # CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # # Appletalk devices # # CONFIG_DEV_APPLETALK is not set # CONFIG_DECNET is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set # CONFIG_ECONET is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set # CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set # # QoS and/or fair queueing # CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_CSZ=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK=m CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS=m CONFIG_NET_QOS=y CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y CONFIG_NET_CLS=y CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE4=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y CONFIG_NET_CLS_FW=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=m CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y # # Network testing # CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN=m -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH | Internet-Business-Provider Technik CISCO Systems Partner - Authorized Reseller Lütticher Strasse 10 Tel 0241/701333-11 ch@westend.com D-52064 Aachen Fax 0241/911879