Re: [nft 0.9.3 | kernel 5.4.48] cannot get NAT to work

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ <vtol@gmx.net> wrote:
> Since the ruleset that worked with kernel 4.19 did not anymore with kernel
> 5.4 (throwing segfault) I started from scratch to see what gives.
> 
> nft add table inet filter
> nft add chain inet filter input { type filter hook input priority 0 \; }
> nft add chain inet filter forward { type filter hook forward priority 0 \; }
> nft add chain inet filter output    { type filter hook output priority 0 \;
> }
> nft add table inet nat
> 
> Thus far good and then things go awry and the output does not help to
> understand what might be wrong:
> 
> nft add chain inet nat prerouting { type nat hook prerouting priority \-100
> \; }
> nft: unrecognized option: 1

If you use the shell, you should use single-quote for the entire
arguments.  nft 'add chain ...'

here, nft thinks you passed '-1' as an option.

> and next up
> 
> nft add chain inet nat postrouting { type nat hook postrouting priority 100
> \; }
> Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory

inet nat depends on CONFIG_NF_TABLES_INET.