On 9/15/19 2:57 PM, Timo Sigurdsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading two of my machines from Debian Stretch to Buster, I 
> experimented a bit with the new nftables firewall backend. Pretty much 
> everything works fine and I couldn't find anything that behaves differently. 
> But on one of the two machines, I get an error when I run `nft list ruleset` 
> which is "XT target TCPMSS not found". I've looked a bit around to see what's 
> different on those two machines and found the configuration option 
> CLAMPMSS=Yes to be the culprit (the machine uses a PPPoE connection). In 
> fact, I tested setting this option in shorewall.conf which causes no issues, 
> but as soon as it's enabled in shorewall6.conf, nft will show the error 
> message. The kernel module seems to be available though. lsmod shows both 
> xt_TCPMSS and xt_tcpmss.
> 
> Is this a limitation of ip6tables-nft or should CLAMPMSS=Yes not be used for 
> IPv6 in general?
> 

That looks like a bug in nft or in ip6tables-nft; the TCPMSS rule is
clearly instantiated, but nft gets confused trying to display it.

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep        \   Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with
Shoreline,         \     an international standard?
Washington, USA     \ A: Someone who makes you an offer you can't
http://shorewall.org \   understand
                      \_______________________________________________

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
Shorewall-users mailing list
Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

Reply via email to