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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Roeland Th. Jansen" <roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max ip_conntrack entries
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:32:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14gkPG-001PKeC@mozart> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:34:47 -0000." <20010321193447.A555@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>

In message <20010321193447.A555@grobbebol.xs4all.nl> you write:
> 
> is there a way to dynamically change the limit : kernel: ip_conntrack:
> maximum limit of 16384 entries exceeded ?

echo 32768 > /proc/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max

Don't increase it too much, or your efficiency will go out the window
(the hash table size doesn't increase).

> either a newssus scan or a weird ftp server I tried to connect to,
> caused the table to fill pretty fast and all other connections stopped
> for a short time.

It will start dropping "unreplied" connections.

Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

      reply	other threads:[~2001-03-29 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-21 19:34 Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-03-24  9:32 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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