Firewall on Fedora how it works, and runs by default

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Sun May 16 02:27:08 UTC 2010


>When we start we see if iptables service succeeded or not.  How about the other part:
>
>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
>nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
>CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
>nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
>sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
>
>What is CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT and why is it being depracated?

Google:)
It is Connection tracking flow accounting, its being replaced I guess
as per a quick read at lkml.org.

Just ignore it for your purposes...


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