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Huge different between concurrent connections in dashboard and ssh shell

Hi all!

I am using Sophos UTM Home edition v9.408 (which is free) with just about 10 users. The concurrent connections reach the limit 32k immediately after that. Checking in ssh shell with "netstat -na | wc -l" shows only 1k4.

Please show me which one is right and if it is actually 32k, how can I drop it.

Any idea would be appreciated!



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  • Hi, Truong, and welcome to the UTM Community!

    I wonder if this isn't just a broken PostgreSQL data base.  The following command will delete the data in Reporting and graphs, but will not affect your log files:

    /etc/init.d/postgresql92 rebuild

    Did that fix the problem?  If not, does this mis-measurement have any effect on your use of the UTM?

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • Hi Bob,

    Thanks very very much for your answer and your contribution to our community. I admire that.

    As I replied, this is right when compared with nf_contrack. I fixed this by decreasing all timeout parameters by half:

    echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close
    echo 30 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close_wait
    echo 86400 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established
    echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_fin_wait
    echo 15 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_last_ack
    echo 150 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_max_retrans
    echo 30 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_recv
    echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_sent
    echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_sent2
    echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait

    Thanks again, Bob!

  • Truong, I don't believe that these changes will survive a reboot.  You might want to use the following commands suggested by da_merlin to make persistent changes to packetfilter timeouts.

    The first one will show you what's in the configuration database that you manipulate with WebAdmin.  The second is an example of making changes to the configuration database.

    cc get packetfilter timeouts

    cc set packetfilter timeouts ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close 5

    Cheers - Bob

     
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    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
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