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...r by timing out. But as our cache was bypassing some of the connections, the machine was seeing only one way stream of packets (!IPS_SEEN_REPLY). And when the originating host terminates a bypassed connection by sending out RST packets, the corresponding entry is repeatedly removed from hash with death_by_tiemout() and soon confirmed again adding jiffies to expire time every time. Applying the following patch solved the problem. As I'm not on the list, please CC to me any comments regarding this problem. Thank you a lot for great netfilter. --- linux-2.4.20-orig/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/listhe...