Jozsef / Patrick Thanks for your quick replies !
Ah I see, sorry I didn't tell you I am still using iptables 1.2.5 on Kernel 2.4.17. Well, i don't care whether to enter a value in jiffies or seconds but now I am just wondering this : How do I know which values on a linux system are supposed to be measured in jiffies and which in seconds cause other stuff like samba f.e. uses seconds for its timeout values. Thanks Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jozsef Kadlecsik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Patrick Schaaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:32 AM Subject: Re: ip_ct_tcp_timeout_established 500 days ?? > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > > > > ip_ct_tcp_timeout_established > > > > > > in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ expecting to find a value of 432000 which > > > would translate to 5 days. > > > To my surprise I found this value: 43200000 which would be 500 days. > > > Then I started looking for the expected value in > > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/* but couldn't find it. > > > > That value is in "jiffies", the unit of timer interrupts in the kernel. > > Jozsef was going to fix that, but apparently did not come around to > > do so in the code you are using. > > I had fixed it, together with a nasty NAT-related bug. The fixed patch can > be found in the cvs. (I suppose the used patch comes from an older > iptables release.) > > Regards, > Jozsef > - > E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec > Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics > H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary >
