diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
index cc8ead9d947..2e0ff132e58 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvm64template/postinstall.sh
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ EOF
   locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 }
 
+# This is actually a bug in the conntrackd package. The comment in the conf file says stats logging is off by default but the parameter is set to on.
+# After a couple weeks logrotate will rotate the conntrackd-stats.log file ans start conntracking even if we don't want it to (on non-redundant routers for instance).
+fix_conntrackd() {
+  sed -i '/Stats {/,/}/ s/LogFile on/LogFile off/' /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf
+  rm -f /var/log/conntrackd-stats.log
+}
+
 fix_vhdutil() {
   wget --no-check-certificate http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util -O /bin/vhd-util
   chmod a+x /bin/vhd-util
@@ -194,6 +201,7 @@ do_fixes() {
   fix_acpid
   fix_hostname
   fix_locale
+  fix_conntrackd
   fix_vhdutil
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
index 23e66dd2888..4b3990ca563 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/definitions/systemvmtemplate/postinstall.sh
@@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ EOF
   locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 }
 
+# This is actually a bug in the conntrackd package. The comment in the conf file says stats logging is off by default but the parameter is set to on.
+# After a couple weeks logrotate will rotate the conntrackd-stats.log file ans start conntracking even if we don't want it to (on non-redundant routers for instance).
+fix_conntrackd() {
+  sed -i '/Stats {/,/}/ s/LogFile on/LogFile off/' /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf
+  rm -f /var/log/conntrackd-stats.log
+}
+
 fix_vhdutil() {
   wget --no-check-certificate http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util -O /bin/vhd-util
   chmod a+x /bin/vhd-util
@@ -184,6 +191,7 @@ do_fixes() {
   fix_acpid
   fix_hostname
   fix_locale
+  fix_conntrackd
   fix_vhdutil
 }