From 3066b6437b0929daa841b5ed1d4a25905d0fcd4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Kochan Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:34:43 +0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser --- flowtop.8 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) 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: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf