Re: synflood +syncookies + conntrack strange behaviour

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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 06:07:23PM -0600, Alex Flex wrote:
> Hello netfilter,
> 
> Iam still wondering if the lack of error for the conntrack table
> full may be a bug in the module? Any help is much appreciated.

The early_drop code is evicting one of the entries from the table to
make room for some new flow:

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.9.1/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c#L606

Packets are dropped if the table is full *and* if no unassured flows
to evict are found.

Regards.
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