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authorVadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>2016-04-22 07:34:43 +0300
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2016-04-22 16:05:06 +0200
commit3066b6437b0929daa841b5ed1d4a25905d0fcd4b (patch)
treedf67f39162454eca01b6de6c1ea4fbcec1e7c12d
parentcbce1528138339e6dc1a6f51f915641b7840d685 (diff)
flowtop: man: Add how-to activate conntrack by modprobe
Add another tip how to activate conntrack mechanism by loading required kernel modules via modprobe. This info might be used to make these modules load automatically at startup. Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
-rw-r--r--flowtop.88
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diff --git a/flowtop.8 b/flowtop.8
index 1367e6e..27ba22c 100644
--- a/flowtop.8
+++ b/flowtop.8
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
.sp
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
.in -4
+.sp
+or by loading the following kernel modules:
+.sp
+.in +4
+modprobe nf_conntrack_ipv4
+.sp
+modprobe nf_conntrack_ipv6
+.in -4
.PP
To dump byte/packet counters flowtop enables the sysctl(8) parameter
\[lq]net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct\[rq] via: