[Linux-disciples] What does this mean? (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

Meant to send this to everyone.

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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:40:05 -0400
From: Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org>
To: Karl Sokol <revkarl at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-disciples] What does this mean?
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:27:54AM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
>     It *is* excessive
>     logging, though: is it logging every inbound packet?
> 
> how can i find out?

For a typical web user there will be, I hasten to say,
millions upon millions of packets. How many lines similar to
the one you sent are in your dmesg output? If it's more than
a few, then this is excessive.

If it's only a few, on the other hand, then I wonder why
it's just singling out those few.

Check whether you've loaded the ip_conntrack module:

lsmod |grep -i conntrack

The output you sent looks very ip_conntrack-ish. I didn't
know it logged anything; I just thought it was a device
(/dev/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack or whatever).

If it's loaded, you could do

sudo modprobe -r ip_conntrack

to get rid of it. It's not necessary.

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