Re: Session tracking failure - ssh packets dropped as INVALID

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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Philip Craig wrote:

> John Zornig wrote:
> > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal
> 
> This is just a workaround for a bug.
> 
> Are you using a recent kernel?
> 
> It would be good to work with Jozsef to get this fixed if you are able
> to help debug it.  Also report it on the netfilter-devel list.
> 
> To debug, I think the first steps are to enable logging with:
> 
> 	modprobe ipt_LOG
> 	echo 255 >/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_log_invalid
> 
> and check your syslog for errors.
> 
> Also get a tcpdump of the ssh traffic with something like:
> 
> 	tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w dump.pcap tcp port 22

Exactly. By enabling ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal you just mask the 
problem. And without dumped traffic to analyze I cannot do anything to 
improve the kernel.

Best regards,
Jozsef
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