Ha.  Even older:

root@The-Tardis:~# nft -v
nftables v0.6 (Support Edward Snowden)


And in reply to a couple of off-list messages:

wireguard-tools-1.0.20191226

There are different reasons for using different VPNs.  Can you really 
"totally" trust the one that you're using.

Cheers.



On 1/1/2020 10:22 PM, Edward Vielmetti wrote:
> Eddie - what version of nftables does Slackware come with? The output 
> of `nft -v` should be helpful.
>
> There is a report from stackexchange that nftables at 0.7 gives this 
> error, but at 0.8.1 or better it's OK. I was not easily able to verify 
> that from the source code, but it would be where I'd start to look. 
> There was
>
> The nftables 0.8.1 release notes (from 2018) are here: 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/744480/ and it points to new syntax in this 
> release.
>
> good luck!
>
> Ed
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 12:27 AM Eddie <stunnel@attglobal.net 
> <mailto:stunnel@attglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     First time running wireguard as a native client on my Slackware 14.2
>     system throws this:
>
>     root@The-Tardis:~# wg-quick up wg0
>     [#] ip link add wg0 type wireguard
>     [#] wg setconf wg0 /dev/fd/63
>     [#] ip -4 address add 192.168.150.14/32 <http://192.168.150.14/32>
>     dev wg0
>     [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev wg0
>     [#] wg set wg0 fwmark 51820
>     [#] ip -4 route add 0.0.0.0/0 <http://0.0.0.0/0> dev wg0 table 51820
>     [#] ip -4 rule add not fwmark 51820 table 51820
>     [#] ip -4 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0
>     [#] sysctl -q net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
>     [#] nft -f /dev/fd/63
>     /dev/fd/63:5:76-80: Error: syntax error, unexpected saddr
>
>     Fairly simple config to connect to my VPS:
>
>     [Interface]
>     Address = 192.168.150.14/32 <http://192.168.150.14/32>
>     PrivateKey = <Not the key you're looking for>
>
>     [Peer]
>     PublicKey = <Just being overly paranoid>
>     Endpoint = www.xxx.yyy.zzz:51820
>     AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 <http://0.0.0.0/0>
>
>     Not sure what additional information you need collected at this point.
>
>     I'm able to connect outbound successfully using NordVPN's version of
>     wireguard, but that doesn't use wg-quick, which is where the issue is.
>
>     Cheers.
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