thank you! this got me going into the right direction. It appears that I had too many IPv6 addresses inside an anonymous Set - I wasn't aware there was a limit of how many elements could be within a set (inside curly brackets)? There is no mention of a limit of how many in https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Sets - unless I missed something. On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:14 AM Eric <evil.function@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Off the top of my head, --echo and --debug all will increase the quantity of output (the latter quite a lot). > > Eric > > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Thursday, January 12th, 2023 at 23:05, Gio <gioflux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have a relatively small config.nft file with ~220 lines that I am > > trying to load onto my system. When I do this I get the below error > > message. > > > > The ruleset is very small, so I don't expect this to be a buffer > > issue. Are there any recommended troubleshooting steps or perhaps a > > way to load the file in a more verbose way to see in which line of the > > config.nft file this error is triggered? > > > > Thanks. > > > > root@nf:~/nftables-geoip# nft -f noverbose.nft > > netlink: Error: Could not process rule: Message too long > > root@nf:~/nftables-geoip# wc -l noverbose.nft > > 221 noverbose.nft
