On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I > could ping it, and all the network connections were in place and > functional, but no outside access. I looked into it and found that > the syslog was flooded with this: > > > Mar 22 21:25:55 localhost kernel: nf_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. > Mar 22 21:26:00 localhost kernel: printk: 11 messages suppressed. > Mar 22 21:26:00 localhost kernel: nf_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. > Mar 22 21:26:05 localhost kernel: printk: 16 messages suppressed. > > > These messages spanned a full 20 hours of the log. I understand that > conntrack is the connection tracking system that iptables uses. I > also understand that its maximum is something on the order of 65000 > simultaneous connections. For a simple home network, I think we can > agree that I would probably never approach this number of connections > with normal use. > > So my question is this: what could have caused the router's > connection tracker to overflow? > -- > Dan Cowsill > http://www.danthehat.net > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
What type of 'net services do you run between your home network and the outside? Is there a possibility that someone out have put a denial of service attack on you? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
