TCP connections being randomly rejected by the firewall under load, when stateful filtering rules are used.

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Issue

  • TCP connections being randomly rejected by the firewall under load, when stateful filtering rules are used.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux; and
  • Iptables firewall with stateful inspection ruleset.

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