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very helpful… saved me from a lot of googling… thanks!
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Thanks for the post. It was very helpful. When doing the rmmod, is that just unloading the modules or permanently deleting them? You mention don’t do the “iptables -t nat -L -n” because they will load again, so I assume the former. If I accidentally loaded them, would I just need to rmmod the modules again. I use iptables to close off all ports and poke holes in it for services and making blacklist/whitelists for certain IPs. Is the conntrack needed for this? I assume some of the modules you suggested to remove are required.
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Hi Matt,
Glad to help 🙂 nf_conntrack is necessery only if you use certain iptables functionality
cya
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There is a little error:
linux:~# echo 'net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_count = 131072' >> /etc/sysctl.confThe correct should be _maxlinux:~# echo 'net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 131072' >> /etc/sysctl.confThanks for the article!
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Thank you for your assistance
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Hi,
thank you very much for this article. I had many packet drop messages on my router and raising values has helped me a lot. Do you know, where hashsize and nf_conntrack_max has its limits?
My router is a cluster that synchronizes connection tracking tables. So I guess I still need the conntrack modules even the system is pure routing, right? I sync the tables so connection can still continue even on cluster node switch.
What I don’t know is, at which point raising the max and hash sizes become a problem.
Thanks
Christian
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Hi Christian,
It depends on your Router Hardware / CPU and installed kernel. Check the kernel with uname -a and according to Kernel google for maximum settings you can set for conntrack max and hash sizes values. Also try to experiment as usual 🙂
Hope this helps,
Georgi
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Spot On ! You got it.
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in your commands:
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/sbin/rmmod rmmod nf_conntrack_ipv4
there seems to be one “rmmod” too many
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Thanks for the article, I ran across this dropping packets issue while building a web crawler. One small typo in the article still, missing an 'l' here 'linux:~# /sbin/sysct -p'
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