With nf_tables it is not possible to use port range for masquerading. Masquerade statement has option "to [:port-port]" which give no effect to translation behavior. But it must change source port of packet to one from ":port-port" range. My network: +-----------------------------+ | ROUTER | | | | Masquerade| | 10.0.0.1 1.1.1.1 | | +------+ +------+ | | | eth1 | | eth2 | | +-+--^---+-----------+---^--+-+ | | | | +----v------+ +------v----+ | | | | | 10.0.0.2 | | 1.1.1.2 | | | | | |PC1 | |PC2 | +-----------+ +-----------+ For testing i used rule like this: rule ip nat POSTROUTING oifname eth2 masquerade to :666 Run netcat for 1.1.1.2 667(UDP) and get dump from PC2: 15:22:25.591567 a8:f9:4b:aa:08:44 > a8:f9:4b:ac:e7:8f, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 60: 1.1.1.1.34466 > 1.1.1.2.667: UDP, length 1 Address translation works fine, but source port are not belongs to specified range. I see in similar source code (i.e. nft_redir.c, nft_nat.c) that there is setting NF_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_SPECIFIED flag. After adding this, repeat test for kernel with this patch, and get dump: 16:16:22.324710 a8:f9:4b:aa:08:44 > a8:f9:4b:ac:e7:8f, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 60: 1.1.1.1.666 > 1.1.1.2.667: UDP, length 1 Now it is works fine. Signed-off-by: Sergey Marinkevich <s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_masq.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_masq.c b/net/netfilter/nft_masq.c index bc9fd98c5d6d..448376e59074 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_masq.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_masq.c @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void nft_masq_ipv4_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, ®s->data[priv->sreg_proto_min]); range.max_proto.all = (__force __be16)nft_reg_load16( ®s->data[priv->sreg_proto_max]); + range.flags |= NF_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_SPECIFIED; } regs->verdict.code = nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4(pkt->skb, nft_hook(pkt), &range, nft_out(pkt)); @@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ static void nft_masq_ipv6_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, ®s->data[priv->sreg_proto_min]); range.max_proto.all = (__force __be16)nft_reg_load16( ®s->data[priv->sreg_proto_max]); + range.flags |= NF_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_SPECIFIED; } regs->verdict.code = nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6(pkt->skb, &range, nft_out(pkt)); -- 2.21.0