[TriLUG] (no subject)

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Joseph S. Tate wrote:

> I'm running into a problem that's really kicking my tail; when my server
> gets under high network load, I'm getting connection timeouts.  These don't
> just happen on the port with the high load, but even on ssh's port too.
> What are some things to do to track down why the connections are failing?

This sounds like connection tracking is being maxed out (in other words, a 
firewall issue).

> I've got shorewall as a firewall management tool.

I would check the connection tracking settings on this machine and any 
other firewalls in front of it, and look at the number of tracked 
connections when the problem is happening (if you can).

 			Alexey