[PLUG] Viewing current kernel values

[Matt Alexander]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 09:34, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > I have a Linux router and I increased the value for tcp_conntrack_max.  Is
> > there a way to view the actual value being currently used in the kernel?
> > For example, if I've set tcp_conntrack_max to be 10000 and there's
> > currently 9500 tracked connections then I'd like to know that so I can
> > increase tcp_conntrack_max further.
> 
> /proc/net/ip_conntrack lists all tracked connections; wc -l should show
> you a total.  I also seem to recall a top-like tool that will monitor
> this, but I forget the name.

Great!  Thanks!