OK ......... i downloaded latest patch-o-matic snapshot, get a new kernel 2.4.20 source tree and tried to aplly the needed patchs. But, I got a problem here .... Seems I need submitted/10_confirm_fix.patch to fix the CLOSE stuff ..... but I also need tcp-window-tracking.patch for allowing deal with conntrack timeouts in kernel runtime. But both patchs seems to change the SAME line in two files. So, I cannot apply the two. I can only apply one of them ( any one ) and it will apply correctly. The other will always fail. Problem seems to be: hunk from submitted/10_confirm_fix.patch --- linux-2.4.20-base/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c Tue Feb 18 17:07:26 2003 +++ linux-2.4.20-del/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c Fri Feb 21 17:03:35 2003 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ have an established connection: this is a fairly common problem case, so we can delete the conntrack immediately. --RR */ - if (!(conntrack->status & IPS_SEEN_REPLY) && tcph->rst) { + if (!test_bit(IPS_SEEN_REPLY_BIT, &conntrack->status) && tcph->rst) { WRITE_UNLOCK(&tcp_lock); if (del_timer(&conntrack->timeout)) conntrack->timeout.function((unsigned long)conntrack); in extra/tcp-window-tracking.patch file, I have, among several other changes: - if (!(conntrack->status & IPS_SEEN_REPLY) && tcph->rst) { + if (!(conntrack->status & IPS_SEEN_REPLY)) { Question ...... and now, what should I do ?? :) It would be very interesting to me having both patchs applied. Do the mainteners of these patchs are subscribed to this list ? If yes, can you help me ? Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jozsef Kadlecsik" <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhaes" <leolistas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "netfilter ML" <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: Re: question on ip_conntrack log entries and behavior On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhăes wrote: > I got a firewall running kernel 2.4.20 with some p-o-m patches, > including tcp-window-tracking which allows me change timeout stuff in > runtime. > > Well ...... my /proc/net/ip_conntrack log is PLENTY of CLOSE > connections, just like: This is a bug in 2.4.20. You need the submitted/10_confirm_fix.patch.help patch from the most recent patch-o-matic. Regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary