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2007 Jan 18
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[Bug 533] New: PANIC: divide by zero in xt_connbytes
...Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: P2
Component: ip_tables (kernel)
AssignedTo: laforge@netfilter.org
ReportedBy: xkr47@outerspace.dyndns.org
xt_connbytes supports matching by average packet size. It does so by
calculating bytes_so_far / packets_so_far. Sometimes it seems that
packets_so_far is 0, which causes a divide by zero and thus the kernel to
panic. The kernel has paniced some 8 times for me already. Most traffic don't
reach my iptables rules using xt_connbytes however so that's why it doesn't
crash all the time..
My &...