Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:35:13 -0500 From: Patrick <patrick@esoltani.com> To: Ben Bentsen <freebsd@usww.com> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules Message-ID: <4141F3E1.3070906@esoltani.com> In-Reply-To: <4141F8E0.8060700@usww.com> References: <4141F8E0.8060700@usww.com>
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Ben Bentsen wrote: > Hello group, > > Can any shed a little light on the following error messages. I have > spent a great deal of time looking at what is running at about > 9:30am-9:45am and have found nothing that I can pin to these errors. No > cron jobs are running anywhere even close to the time. TCPdump does not > shed any light either. This machine has only one purpose to pass, count, > limit and deny packets to a network Only SSH and FTP services are > enabled on this machine. What conditions case this message maybe I am > looking in the wrong place. > > INET ---- This Machine --- Catalyst 2820 ------ 14 computer units > > Aug 7 09:41:34 7206 /kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules > Aug 10 09:41:207206 /kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules > Aug 13 09:41:31 7206 /kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules You see these because you have most of your rules setup to utilize the keep-state stuff (stateful thingy). couple of things you can do: #sysctl -a | grep bucket net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets: 256 which is default, at least on 5.2.1, should be the same on 4.x increasing this will require more memory, but should give *some* relief. make an explicit rule for outgoing packets. Regards, Patrick Soltani.
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