You didn't mention what version of Fedora you're running, but AFAIK, iptables defaults to on when the system is installed - have you checked that it's really off? And to answer the unasked but implied question - >The answer is to up the number of connections, but if theres no firewall >theres nothing much to up! Of course there are settings to twiddle in the IP stack and ifconfig both that might address your problem. Mike- On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:15:54 +0100, you wrote: >Quick question about /proc/net/ip_conntrack, I assume this is only >created on systems running a firewall? If this is the case I am >wondering why my internal open system (no firewall) seemed to crash with >the only errors in the log being : > >Aug 13 12:05:15 kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. >Aug 13 12:18:36 kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. >Aug 13 12:29:36 kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. >Aug 13 13:47:31 kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. > >The answer is to up the number of connections, but if theres no firewall >theres nothing much to up! > > >Many thanks to anyone that can shed any light on this! > >Neil. -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
