/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_* Variables: nf_conntrack_acct - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled (default) not 0 - enabled Enable connection tracking flow accounting. 64-bit byte and packet counters per flow are added. nf_conntrack_buckets - INTEGER (read-only) Size of hash table. If not specified as parameter during module loading, the default size is calculated by dividing total memory by 16384 to determine the number of buckets but the hash table will never have fewer than 32 and limited to 16384 buckets. For systems with more than 4GB of memory it will be 65536 buckets. nf_conntrack_checksum - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled not 0 - enabled (default) Verify checksum of incoming packets. Packets with bad checksums are in INVALID state. If this is enabled, such packets will not be considered for connection tracking. nf_conntrack_count - INTEGER (read-only) Number of currently allocated flow entries. nf_conntrack_events - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled not 0 - enabled (default) If this option is enabled, the connection tracking code will provide userspace with connection tracking events via ctnetlink. nf_conntrack_events_retry_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 15 This option is only relevant when "reliable connection tracking events" are used. Normally, ctnetlink is "lossy", that is, events are normally dropped when userspace listeners can't keep up. Userspace can request "reliable event mode". When this mode is active, the conntrack will only be destroyed after the event was delivered. If event delivery fails, the kernel periodically re-tries to send the event to userspace. This is the maximum interval the kernel should use when re-trying to deliver the destroy event. A higher number means there will be fewer delivery retries and it will take longer for a backlog to be processed. nf_conntrack_expect_max - INTEGER Maximum size of expectation table. Default value is nf_conntrack_buckets / 256. Minimum is 1. nf_conntrack_frag6_high_thresh - INTEGER default 262144 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When nf_conntrack_frag6_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, the fragment handler will toss packets until nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh is reached. nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh - INTEGER default 196608 See nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh nf_conntrack_frag6_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 60 Time to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory. nf_conntrack_generic_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 600 Default for generic timeout. This refers to layer 4 unknown/unsupported protocols. nf_conntrack_helper - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled not 0 - enabled (default) Enable automatic conntrack helper assignment. nf_conntrack_icmp_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 30 Default for ICMP timeout. nf_conntrack_icmpv6_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 30 Default for ICMP6 timeout. nf_conntrack_log_invalid - INTEGER 0 - disable (default) 1 - log ICMP packets 6 - log TCP packets 17 - log UDP packets 33 - log DCCP packets 41 - log ICMPv6 packets 136 - log UDPLITE packets 255 - log packets of any protocol Log invalid packets of a type specified by value. nf_conntrack_max - INTEGER Size of connection tracking table. Default value is nf_conntrack_buckets value * 4. nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled (default) not 0 - enabled Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. If it's non-zero, we mark only out of window RST segments as INVALID. nf_conntrack_tcp_loose - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled not 0 - enabled (default) If it is set to zero, we disable picking up already established connections. nf_conntrack_tcp_max_retrans - INTEGER default 3 Maximum number of packets that can be retransmitted without received an (acceptable) ACK from the destination. If this number is reached, a shorter timer will be started. nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close - INTEGER (seconds) default 10 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close_wait - INTEGER (seconds) default 60 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established - INTEGER (seconds) default 432000 (5 days) nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_fin_wait - INTEGER (seconds) default 120 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_last_ack - INTEGER (seconds) default 30 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_max_retrans - INTEGER (seconds) default 300 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_recv - INTEGER (seconds) default 60 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_sent - INTEGER (seconds) default 120 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait - INTEGER (seconds) default 120 nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_unacknowledged - INTEGER (seconds) default 300 nf_conntrack_timestamp - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled (default) not 0 - enabled Enable connection tracking flow timestamping. nf_conntrack_udp_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) default 30 nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream2 - INTEGER (seconds) default 180 This extended timeout will be used in case there is an UDP stream detected.