Why do netstat command output and 'cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack' have a huge difference in ESTABLISHED connection?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There are so huge gap of the number of ESTABLISHED connection between netstat command output and 'cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack'.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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