› UKTH forums › 🛜 Wireless Routers & Modems › ASUS & Wireless › ASUS Log – kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full ASUS System Log Warning – kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full message OK, so I upgraded my RT-AC86U to ASUSWRT-Merlin latest firmware RT-AC86U_384.14_0 I noticed, probable there from previous versions, the... › Reply To: ASUS Log – kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full ASUS System Log Warning – kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full message OK, so I upgraded my RT-AC86U to ASUSWRT-Merlin latest firmware RT-AC86U_384.14_0 I noticed, probable there from previous versions, the…
Good Afternoon Everyone
I stumbled onto this forum post after seeing tons of “kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full” being spammed into my Asus RT-AX82U’s System Log.

I also started noticing that when the kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full messages are getting posted to the log, I get massive ping spikes. Almost like the packets are getting dropped?
I SSH’d into my router and used the cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect_max command @UK Sentinal provided and it reported back 150
so I then ran the other commands to increase that number “nvram set ct_expect_max=1024
nvram commit
reboot”
After the reboot finished, I ran cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect_max again and it reported back 1024, so the change is sticking but the kernel: nf_conntrack: expectation table full messages are still getting posted at a crazy rate.
Not sure how to proceed from here and I’m hoping someone can help me out, otherwise I have no choice but to buy a diffrent brand of router
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