Questions tagged [conntrack]
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yum not updating /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables
I have been hit by the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493226 (restarting iptables ignores values in /etc/sysctl.conf). This bug has been fixed by RH quite a while ago.
The server has had yum update run many times since the RH…

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iptables dos limit for all ports
I know how to use limit conntrack option to allow for DoS protection. However, I want to add a protection to limit no more than say 50 connections for each port. How can I do this?
Basically, I want to make sure that each port can have no more than…
user101130
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conntrack -L does not show any connection
I am writing a utility which will use Conntrack commands to show the connection states. I am a beginner and I wanted to play with the Conntrack before I could start my work. So, when I tried conntrack -L conntrack, I get the output which says there…

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Wierd firewalld block after recent update, Centos Stream 9, blocks icmp replies as invalid state
I am running Centos Stream 9 on VMware. I recently used dnf update and now there is a weird problem that some ping-replies are stopped by the firewalld. If I stop the firewall, ping works ok.
The problem presents itself like this:
I ping from the…

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How to apply DROP rule immediately (iptables/conntrack)
An external IP is connecting to my mailserver VM every second and I just want to block this IP immediately without dropping existing connections.
So I apply a DROP rule.
I even reloaded all the iptables rules, but the external IP is still connecting…

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How Docker interacts with conntrack?
I am trying to understand how Docker interacts with conntrack. I created two containers (connected to docker0), pinged 4 times from one to the other, and analyzed the iptables counts. This is the result:
iptables screenshot.
My concern is with the…
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Drop first SYN packet with nftables
How can I drop the first SYN packet (or the first SYN/ACK reply) received by my server?
I have a test VPS set up to capture and analyze malicious traffic directed to non-standard TCP ports, for example attacks on sshd running on a high port. Using…

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How can I allowing all established incoming connections without conntrack?
I want to make my iptables accepted all stablished incoming connections,
but I don't have conntrack in my system so I can't run:
sudo iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
It is possible to make it happened with something…

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why allowing established incoming connections doesn't work?
I am trying to allowing all established incoming connections in my iptables using this command:
sudo iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
but I get this error message:
"iptables-restore v1.8.4 (legacy): Couldn't load match…

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conntrack events(conntrack -E) show 0.0.0.0 as source and destination addresses
These are the logs down below.
[DESTROY] udp 17 src=0.0.0.0 dst=0.0.0.0 sport=0 dport=0 packets=3 bytes=216 [UNREPLIED] src=0.0.0.0 dst=0.0.0.0 sport=0 dport=0 packets=0 bytes=0
[NEW] udp 17 30 src=0.0.0.0 dst=0.0.0.0 sport=0 dport=0…
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iptables FTP connection tracking not working
I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction here please.
Running proftpd (with tls support) on a public IP.
FTP client connects, but can't do a directory listing. When I change the "INPUT" policy on iptables to ACCEPT, it does work.
The…
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How conntrack and network namespaces works together?
Is nf_conntrack respects network namespaces? Does it creates a separate table for each network namespace based on its sysctl limits, or does it share memory (and limits) between different network namespaces?
I've searched a lot, but wasn't able to…

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How to prevent netfilter to automatically change the source ports
I observed that netfilter changes the source port when a connection is established in the conntrack module. I need to prevent this behavior.
Here is what I have done to reproduce my problem:
I create a netfilter rule that will perform DNAT from…
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route ipv4 to ipv6 as mechanism to overcome not owning an ipv4 block for load balancing purposes on premise k8s (none aws/gcp)
This is not a question about tunnelling, although that may be part of a solution.
With public cloud providers it's trivial to request a load balancer due to providers owning large class A/B/C public IPv4 blocks. However, whilst it's trivial to own…

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