Nmap Development: Re: NMAP shows local machine as down

[micro dev <microdev1 () yahoo com>]

Hi Andy,
Thanks for your explanation.
But actually, I am not able to comprehend it.
 
1) About this statement -
"The strange behavior you see is due to some logic I added that, IIRC, 
falsifies the routing information for the local computer when it is in 
a range of other IPs.".
 
Why routing information come into picture here.Especially for a client who is issuing a request. I can easily ping my 
local IP address using it's actual IP address.
Actually, what is the difference between issuing a single IP request and a range of IP address ?
 
2) I am also not able to understand the diagram. I guess, it got messed up in the mail.
  
3) I remember writing code in the past where I used to send packets using raw sockets and receive packets using 
WinPCap.And I could easily receive the packets, even if the response was for local IP address.
Do you mean to say that there is an issue in sending packets to local IP using WinPcap ?
 
Thanks
Ashish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


luto () stanford edu wrote:


Quoting micro dev :

> Thanks kevin.
> Where can I find that doc. Please give me the pointer to that doc.
[snip]

> I tried to snoop the packets thru Ethereal. And what I deduce that I
> always see this stuff.
> Source - 10.25.125.203
> Destination - 11.25.125.203 
> Protocol - ICMP
> Info - Echo (ping) reply

I don't remember, but since I wrote it, here goes ;)

winpcap (up to v2.3 at least -- i haven't played with v3) can neither 
monitor nor inject packets into the loopback interface. For some 
reason I couldn't get winpcap to scan localhost by using a different 
interface either -- I assume that windows does not see injected packets 
as recieved, even though ethereal (which uses winpcap) does, so these 
packets are effectively dropped -- so there is no way (other than 
connect()) to scan localhost. SOCK_RAW will not bind localhost on 
win2k or xp.

Ugly diagram of what might be happening (assuming IP 10.0.0.1)

IP stack winpcap layer NIC
10.0.0.1->10.0.0.2 -----------------------------------> (10.0.0.2 here)
10.0.0.1->10.0.0.1 ------------> (no listener here)
^ ^
windows misses it Ethereal catches
because there is no the packet here
packet here

The strange behavior you see is due to some logic I added that, IIRC, 
falsifies the routing information for the local computer when it is in 
a range of other IPs. I think I did this because the alternative would 
be to try to route the packets to the local machine over the localhost 
interface, which confused something. Fixing this oddity would be 
pointless, because it is still impossible to scan the local machine.

Hope this helps.


Andy


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