Re: [nft PATCH 2/2] masquerade: Complain if no prerouting chain exists

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:11:51AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 28 April 2017 at 10:05, Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> This warning will be printed even in rulesets loaded with '-f'
> >> which first creates the masq rule an then the other chain.
> >
> > Hmm. I tested it with the following config and it works fine:
> >
> > | table ip nat {
> > |       chain post {
> > |               type nat hook postrouting priority 0; policy accept;
> > |               oifname "veth2" masquerade
> > |       }
> > |
> > |       chain pre {
> > |               type nat hook prerouting priority 0; policy accept;
> > |       }
> > | }
> >
> > OK, with a config consisting of several 'add' commands, it indeed warns.
> >
> >> I think is just a matter of documenting *everywhere* that this is the
> >> expected behaviour, not a bug.
> >
> > Yeah, I should indeed have done that first, also because masquerade
> > statement is not documented at all yet.
> >
> 
> The best current documentation is this:
> 
> https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Performing_Network_Address_Translation_(NAT)

Ah, thanks for the pointer! I tend to ignore anything that's not in the
man page. :)

Cheers, Phil
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