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I have 4 Google cloud instances and I configured those as my hadoop cluster. I set static external IP to one of my instances to connect from my Linux machine (Windows subsystem for Linux). I tried to use sshuttle service to connect to that instance as VPN so that I can access another instances in my cluster through this VPN. sshuttle throwing error while connecting to my instance.

[ERROR]

sshuttle -r username@mystaticip 0.0.0.0/0 --ssh-cmd "ssh -i ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine"
[local sudo] Password:
client: Connected.
iptables v1.6.1: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
iptables v1.6.1: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
fatal: ['iptables', '-t', 'nat', '-nL'] returned 3
client: fatal: cleanup: ['sudo', '-p', '[local sudo] Password: ', 'PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages', '--', '/usr/bin/python3', '/usr/bin/sshuttle', '--method', 'auto', '--firewall'] returned 99
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Pavan Sai Aravala
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  • Two questions : Have you installed the iptables_nat module? Could you run the sshuttle command with the -v (--verbose) option and provide us with the output? – Alexandre Mar 06 '20 at 17:59
  • @Alexandre I have disabled iptables and SELinux and I am a bit confused regarding iptables_nat module as I am not much aware of networking. – Pavan Sai Aravala Mar 09 '20 at 19:00
  • did you take a look on [this article](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21983554/iptables-v1-4-14-cant-initialize-iptables-table-nat-table-does-not-exist-d) – Alioua Mar 10 '20 at 03:40
  • @Alioua In that article, I am getting an **error** while using the command `sudo modprobe ip_tables.` `sudo modprobe ip_tables modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.4.0-18362-Microsoft/modules.dep.bin' modprobe: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.0-18362-Microsoft root@DESKTOP-C85ET3U:~#` – Pavan Sai Aravala Mar 10 '20 at 19:29

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As of now, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Ubuntu does not support sshuttle. It seems that the Ubuntu inside the WSL does not fully support the iptables commands sshuttle is calling.

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