>>On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 14:04, Alberto Sierra wrote: >> i was reading some netfilter tunning article and found a comment about >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_buckets but when i issued a >> cat to check the value of the file, the system said it didn't exist, >> it this bad? what could happen if not specified? >> >> thanks >> >> Alberto >kernel version? >the ip_conntrack_buckets variable appears after applying: > submitted/76_conntrack_bucket_sysctl.patch >from POM, circa Thu Nov 27 06:28:59 2003... sounds like the kernel you >are running does not have this patch applied to it. im using version 2.4.22, with the iprange patch only, i found the ip_conntrack_buckets default value on the dmesg file, but, what is the submitted/76_conntrack_bucket_sysctl.patch? i can't find information on this patch on the netfilter page.do i really need it? thanks.