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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HA firewall (conntrack-tools)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:04:03
Message-Id: AANLkTim-k8MH0uoDa1C-DbQ7844Sg0kxf3D9BPkD98oD@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] HA firewall (conntrack-tools) by James
1 On 22 June 2010 15:33, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Conntrack-tools
5 > Look here:
6 > http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/testcase.html
7 >
8 > Is anyone doing this, and willing to share configs, answer questions,
9 > or point to other examples?
10 >
11 >
12 > Lots of new kernel stuff for ip tables, since I sank deeply into the
13 > abyss of minutia of IP tables. Further reading references on how to
14 > build an HA or fail-over firewall are most welcome.
15
16 I can't add anything about conntrackd, because I have not used it, but
17 I'd recommend to use the limit module and set it to something sensible
18 (e.g. 3/minute) when logging invalid packets, if you want to avoid
19 bogging down your fw. So use something like:
20
21 -m limit --limit 1/minute
22
23 You could also add --limit-burst in the same fashion again to limit
24 DoS attacks, at least on the Internet facing NICs/ports.
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: HA firewall (conntrack-tools) James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>