On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 at 1:40pm, Paul Bijnens wrote

> I have been thinking about this problem, and, without any real testing
> to backup my hypothesis, I believe the problem lies in the default
> timeout in iptables for UDP traffic, as you decided too.
> 
> For TCP traffic, once a packet is replied, the timeout becomes very
> large (5 days or so I believe).  But for UDP, which is a conectionless
> protocol the timeout is 180 seconds (I believe).
> After this timeout the connection tracking drops the rule.

Is this true even with ip_conntrack_amanda loaded?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University