Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:23:34
Message-Id: 20080323092330.GA13442@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full by Dan Cowsill
1 Hello
2
3 On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:26:16PM -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote:
4 > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > I have SSH to a server, two open ports for bit torrent connections and
6 > a few ranges for DCC transfers from irc.
7
8 Torrents can sometimes open thousands of connections (yes, it is very
9 aggressive way of transferring data). And if you have something like
10 Skype, they a full table is not something unusual.
11
12 So IMO it could be DoS, but it can be some application that doesn't know
13 what is polite behaviour.
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15 --
16 This is a terroristic email. It will explode in 10 minutes,
17 if you do not close it in the meantime.
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19 Michal 'vorner' Vaner