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From: Norberto Bensa <nbensa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 02:51:35
Message-Id: 20080511235122.7vp4swye8gsg4wsk@mail.bensa.ar
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] conntrack and the netfilter howto by reader@newsguy.com
1 Quoting reader@×××××××.com:
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3 > "If you've already rebooted and are using your new netfilter-enabled
4 > kernel, you can view a list of active network connections that your
5 > machine is participating in by typing
6 >
7 > "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack"
8 >
9 > Even with no firewall configured, Linux's conntrack functionality is
10 > working behind the scenes, keeping track of the connections that your
11 > machine is participating in"
12 >
13 > That file is not present on my setup.
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15 Parhaps the author was on crack, or he wasn't using a modularized kernel :)
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17 There will be no ip_conntrack unless you modprobe nf_contrack_ipv4.
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19 HTH,
20 Norberto
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