Re: conntrack and the netfilter howto

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conntrack and the netfilter howto
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Subject:	Re: conntrack and the netfilter howto
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Norberto Bensa
Date:	12 May 2008

Quoting reader:

> "If you've already rebooted and are using your new netfilter-enabled
> kernel, you can view a list of active network connections that your
> machine is participating in by typing
>
> "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack"
>
> Even with no firewall configured, Linux's conntrack functionality is
> working behind the scenes, keeping track of the connections that your
> machine is participating in"
>
> That file is not present on my setup.

Parhaps the author was on crack, or he wasn't using a modularized kernel :)

There will be no ip_conntrack unless you modprobe nf_contrack_ipv4.

HTH,
Norberto

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