On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:09:53PM +0100, Filip Sneppe wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:01, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Yes, thought so, too. - The question that I was trying to ask in this > > thread was, why the /proc/net/ip_conntrack is filled by the kernel > > although I *already did* remove the module! > > What kernel version are you running ? modutils version ? Kernel-2.4.20. modprobe-2.4.15. Debian 3.0 woody distribution. > Is this reproducable upon every reboot ? I'm not allowed to reboot it :-) But it's still reproducible that after decreasing with about 1000 per minute the value of /proc/net/ip_conntrack has now stabilized around the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipt_conntrack_max value which is currently 10000 (was 65520 and filled up to ca. 50000) > I've been giving it a few tries on my machine, and > ip_conntrack disappears nicely from /proc/net upon > unloads/reloads of ip_conntrack, even > with unreplied connections pending. Hmm :) Maybe you should set your machine unter a load of at least 4mbit/s with random IPs. This was the amount of traffic my router had when I reloaded the firewall rule script with a "rmmod" at the beginning. bye, -christian- -- 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