ip_conntrack limit && stateless firewalls

[Kevin Van Workum <vanw@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm having a problem with my firewall where packets are being dropped due 
to the ip_conntrack limit. I could up the limit, but my users need 30k+ 
connections simultaneously and with the minimum overhead. And I only have 
1 firewall box. So I'd like to disable or by-pass ip_conntrack some how to 
avoid dropped packets and reduce over head. How can I do this, and more 
importantly, would it be helpful.

Kevin