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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@ucw.cz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:23:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323092330.GA13442@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0803222026y2aacbddfwdc1985467f134c80@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:26:16PM -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have SSH to a server, two open ports for bit torrent connections and
> a few ranges for DCC transfers from irc.

Torrents can sometimes open thousands of connections (yes, it is very
aggressive way of transferring data). And if you have something like
Skype, they a full table is not something unusual.

So IMO it could be DoS, but it can be some application that doesn't know
what is polite behaviour.

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23  3:16 [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full Dan Cowsill
2008-03-23  3:22 ` Andrey Falko
2008-03-23  3:26   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-23  9:23     ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner [this message]
2008-03-23 13:42 ` Mike Williams
2008-03-25  6:13   ` Adam Carter

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