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flowtop: man: Add how-to activate conntrack by modprobe
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Add another tip how to activate conntrack mechanism by
loading required kernel modules via modprobe. This info
might be used to make these modules load automatically at startup.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
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vkochan authored and tklauser committed Apr 22, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
.sp
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
.in -4
.sp
or by loading the following kernel modules:
.sp
.in +4
modprobe nf_conntrack_ipv4
.sp
modprobe nf_conntrack_ipv6
.in -4
.PP
To dump byte/packet counters flowtop enables the sysctl(8) parameter
\[lq]net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct\[rq] via:
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