On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:10:23PM +0530, Nimit Gupta wrote: > hello, > can somebody point me to a link or answer why does the conntrack table > keeps the entry for connections marked as TIME_WAIT, and if it is not so > useful how can i remove them as soon as the connection finishes. My guess would be because it is still waiting for the remote end to fully close the connection. This means there's the possibility of further packets getting sent to that local ip:port. If you delete the entry and the port gets reused you'll possibly have two remote ip:port's both trying to send traffic to the same local ip:port and causing erroneous RSTs of the connection. Or something like that. -Ath -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME
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