On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 11:56, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I need to change the timeout settings on my iptables firewall. I > found /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/* but I haven't found docs > describing how each of those parameters affect the performance of the > firewall. Where can I find the docs on how to properly set these > values? Thanks. if you have those settings available, you (or your distribution) applied the tcp-window-tracking patch. that patch is based off this document: http://www.iae.nl/users/guido/papers/tcp_filtering.ps.gz -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>