Re: nfnl_listen: recvmsg overrun: No buffer space available" in nfct_event_conntrack() call

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Hi,

Павел Коколемин wrote:
I am using libnetfilter_conntrack for log all connections passing via my router (new & destroy messages).

When LAN users start network scanners (NetLook, for example),
sometimes I receive error in console:
"nfnl_listen: recvmsg overrun: No buffer space available"
generated in nfct_event_conntrack() (recvmsg() returns ENOBUFS error code).
This message generated in nfnl_listen().

Increase netlink buffer size via nfnl_rcvsiz() (libnfnetlink), the default size is available in /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. BTW, this message means that you have probably lost some log messages because the rate was so high that the buffer could not back off.

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