On 6/12/07, yossarian1@gmail.com yossarian1@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my ip_conntrack table is filling up and now my server is dropping packets. I'm running CentOS release 4.4 (Final) on a fairly busy webserver. The table is full of various connections, including a lot of "ESTABLISHED" tcp connections from my webserver (the src is my webserver ip), and some other random connections to my webserver, and many "ASSURED" connections. So why is it filling up? I changed the default timeout value like so:
echo 36000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established
but I don't think that's had any effect. any thoughts? what additional info can I provide that would be helpful? I did find a script that clears out some of the stale connections using hping2, but I don't know if that's really a great solution to this problem.
I have seen this in connection with some dreadful internet worm affecting Windows stations in the last hours. This particular worm seems related to DEL.EXE file modifications. :(