Greetings All, Lately, packets such as the following are getting dropped: Aug 26 13:17:38 firewall kernel: IPT PUB_IN Packet Died: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0A:0B:0C:0D SRC=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd DST=www.xxx.yyy.zzz LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=53 ID=9386 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=39729 WINDOW=24616 RES=0x00 ACK FIN URGP=0 Even though the PUB_IN table contains: iptables -A PUB_IN -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT host www.xxx.yyy.zzz is the firewall snat'ing a connection from an internal squid proxy. I checked /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close, which was set at 10, so I tried turning it up to 1000, to no effect. Ideas? Thanks, -John