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SubjectRe: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16368 entries exceeded
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, rtviado wrote:

> I got this in my logs:
>
> ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16368 entries exceeded
>
> what does this mean, I know i can change the limits in
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max, but I want to know what this is for.

This means that iptable is tracking more than 16368 parallel connections.
Either a very busy box or some spoofed flooding.

> P.S. I looked into linux/Documentation but did not find any mention of
> this configrable parameter....

see http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ - seems that the in-kernel documents
are not uptodate

c'ya
sven

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