Re: Connection timeouts due to INVALID state rule

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Will Storey <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon 2019-07-08 17:51:21 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Anton Danilov <littlesmilingcloud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > To avoid this issue you can tune the conntrack behaviour with sysctl:
> > > sysctl -w net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal=1
> > > sysctl -w net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_loose=1
> > 
> > Yes, a better alternative in this case though would be to
> > NOTRACK packets from/to lo interface.
> > 
> > Its kind of silly that conntrack tracks them be default IMO.
> 
> Yeah, these options seem to fix it as well. It is weird that only some of
> the half open connections seem to need it though, while others I see a RST
> and they work either way.
> 
> Another thing I'm wondering is whether this rule could be impacting
> connections beyond lo, but I just don't know about it.

NORACK? If you restrict it via -i lo / -o lo, then no, it won't affect
anything else.

NAT for such connections won't work but thats normally not an issue
in the loopback case.



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