{"id":52,"date":"2009-09-20T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:39:38","slug":"vps-iptables-rule-limit-is-too-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/vps-iptables-rule-limit-is-too-low","title":{"rendered":"VPS iptables rule limit is too low."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may come across with a &#8220;numiptent&#8221; error message while restarting iptables or whatever firewall (say csf) you have installed on your VPS. The error appear as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The VPS iptables rule limit (numiptent) is too low (200\/250) &#8211; stopping firewall to prevent iptables blocking all connections<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a limit on the number of iptables packet filtering entries for a VPS and if the iptable rules added on a VPS exceeds the &#8220;numiptent&#8221; set, you will receive the given error message.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure iptables works properly on a VPS, you need to <strong>increase the &#8220;numiptent&#8221; value in the VPS configuration file<\/strong> which is <strong>located at \/etc\/sysconfig\/vz-scripts\/veid.conf<\/strong> and have to restart the VPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may come across with a &#8220;numiptent&#8221; error message while restarting iptables or whatever firewall (say csf) you have installed on your VPS. The error appear as follows:<br \/>\nThe VPS iptables rule limit (numiptent) is too low (200\/250) &#8211; stopping firewall to prevent iptables blocking all connections<br \/>\nThere is a limit on the number of iptables packet filtering entries for a VPS and if the iptable rules added on a VPS exceeds the &#8220;numiptent&#8221; set, you will receive the given error message.<br \/>\nTo make sure iptables works properly on a VPS, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,68,66,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}