LARTC - Mar 2002 - ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

Hi,

I know that this is a known problem but I don''t know the solution.

I have a linux server with iptables, kernel 2.4.17.

Now in logs appear (Debian):

kern.log:

Mar  1 23:12:55 cpie kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.
Mar  1 23:13:56 cpie last message repeated 10 times
Mar  1 23:13:59 cpie last message repeated 3 times
Mar  1 23:14:10 cpie kernel: NET: 1 messages suppressed.
Mar  1 23:14:10 cpie kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.
Mar  1 23:14:46 cpie last message repeated 2 times
Mar  1 23:15:51 cpie last message repeated 6 times
Mar  1 23:16:52 cpie last message repeated 6 times
Mar  1 23:17:26 cpie last message repeated 4 times
cpie:/var/log#


messages.log:

Mar  1 23:14:10 cpie kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.
bla bla bla
Mar  1 23:14:46 cpie last message repeated 2 times
Mar  1 23:15:51 cpie last message repeated 6 times
Mar  1 23:16:52 cpie last message repeated 6 times
Mar  1 23:17:26 cpie last message repeated 4 times
Mar  1 23:18:56 cpie last message repeated 9 times

And more information:

cpie:~# netstat -putan|wc -l
     28
cpie:~#

cpie:~# cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack |wc -l
   5810
cpie:~#

cpie:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
6000
cpie:~#

The connection from ip_conntract are like these:

tcp      6 351960 ESTABLISHED src=8asdf dst=asdf sport=1445
dport
=4662 src=dfasdf0 dst=dfdfd sport=4662 dport=1445 [ASSURED]
use=1
tcp      6 345355 ESTABLISHED src=asdfasdf8 dst=asdf sport=2649
dport
=4662 src=sdfasd dst=dfdf sport=4662 dport=2649 [ASSURED]
use=1

How can I "flush" all connection track?

I have compiled iptables into kernel, not as module.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much!


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