Marian Marinov wrote: > On Friday 19 March 2010 16:37:14 Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Marian Marinov wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I'm working for a fairly large shared hosting provider. Recently we >>> decided to upgrade the kernel of our servers to 2.6.33. However, during >>> the testing phase we started to see these messages in the logs: >>> >>> Mar 18 07:52:26 serv01 kernel: nf_ct_ftp: dropping packetIN= OUT=eth0 >>> SRC=212.212.212.12 DST=204.16.203.11 LEN=53 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 >>> ID=21858 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=21 DPT=47282 SEQ=1836474396 ACK=1448911219 >>> WINDOW=23 RES=0x00 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 >>> >>> We don't have iptables LOG rules, this is generated directly from the >>> kernel. >>> >>> 212.212... is not a real IP I have substituted it. >>> >>> Our kernel is 2.6.33 with GRsecurity patch. >>> >>> We don't have any problems with the ftp service, however the messages in >>> the log files are annoying. >>> >>> Can someone tell me what can cause those? >>> >> The helper decided to drop a packet. This is usually cause by partial >> FTP command matches, which can't be handled. >> >> >>> My current thoughts are to remove the printk from the kernel. But is >>> there a better solution? >>> >> If you don't use logging, unload the ipt_LOG module. >> > > It is not loaded, and I still see those messages... In that case you must have linked it statically. Without it, there are no messages. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
