We Abhilash T.G and Arjun Asok are from Amrita School of Engineering. Weinterested in working on bugid 6440630 . I'll be submitting a fix tentatively by
Bug ID 6440630 Synopsis ipnat error message is uninformative and scary to users State 1-Dispatched (Default State) Category:Subcategory network:ipfilter Keywords Reported Against Duplicate Of Introduced In Commit to Fix Fixed In Release Fixed Related Bugs Submit Date 19-JUN-2006 Last Update Date 19-JUN-2006 Description A student in my class made this type of NAT configuration # ipnat -FC -f - << EOF > map hme0 1.1.1.1/32 -> 2.2.2.2/32 proxy port ftp ftp/ftp > EOF 0 entries flushed from NAT table 0 entries flushed from NAT list 1:ioctl(add/insert nat rule): No such file or directory After nearly soiling ourselves from the error message, we realized that this was a simple typo ( s/ftp\/ftp/ftp\/tcp ). The diagnostic really should be improved. Work Around N/A Abhilash T.G oso183 Arjun Asok oso211 OR I have initiated the process to get a SCA number.