module issue?

[Nils Kassube]

Dave Stevens wrote:
> I want to configure nat and I get this:
> 
> sudo iptables -t nat -A  POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE -v
> iptables v1.6.0: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not
> exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs
> to be upgraded.
> 
> uname -r
> 4.9.80+
> 
> and
> 
> ls -l /lib/modules
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 24 03:32 4.14.34+
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 24 03:32 4.14.34-v7+
> 
> I think I understand that /lib/modules will need to have an entry for
> 4.9.80+ but doesn't.
> I've run sudo apt upgrade so I don't think that's a problem .But I
> don't see how to proceed. Anyone?

Did you perhaps remove the package for the 4.9.80+ kernel and didn't 
reboot afterwards? Maybe you should mention which *Ubuntu version you 
are using.


Nils