Am Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:19:08 +0100 (BST) schrieb "G.W. Haywood" <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I don't think it grows indefinitely. The timeout is five days. about 11 hrs in that case :-) (of course I've reduced the standard value) and I've said a similar case - just wondering, cleaned it with conntrack -F the growing to more than 3300 entries has started by an unknown local event triggering conntrack on local connections; I could not find any reason in the logs or somehow else. happened within a minute or 2 from 2 local ports