Did anyone ever manage to write a script to periodically remove “unreplied” connections from the firewall tracking table.
In the last few months I have seen an increase in this problem, today over 2500 unreplied connections, and whilst these may seem innocent at first, they do seem to stop new connections from being establish all the time they remain in the table.
It happens periodically, usually after a night of heavy p2p traffic…
The connection tracking table grows to around 5000 connections and 4000 of those are “unreplied”.
It wouldn’t bother me but there does seem to be a link to customers complaints for 24 hours afterwards (until the connections drop) that some phone lines appear “dead”…
Its a minor issue but an irritating one, those customers affected often restart their voip ATA devices and then the ATA re-establishes a SIP handshake..
I’m curious why a tcp connection can appear “established” in the conn track table, but at the same time remain “unreplied”
And its these random unexplained “un-replied” connections that seem to hog “port space” and prevent some SIP handshaking.
Sadly it appears that the “unreplied” flag is not usable in a script to periodically flush out these nasties.