Fw: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Young" <bunidano_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap

> Ok, now I know what's wrong.
>
> The installer from nmap site
> (http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.11-setup.exe)
> which includes WinPCap 3.1 installs the version of
> packet.dll that depends on wanpacket.dll. But the
> WinPCap installer downloaded from WinPCap site
> (http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_3_1.exe)
> installs the one that doesn't depend on it.
> There seems to be a problem with nmap installer.
>
> --- Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Clay Young" <bunidano_at_yahoo.com>
>> To: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni_at_gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap
>>
>>
>> > Here's an update:
>> >
>> > nmap.exe dynamically loads packet.dll, which is
>> part
>> > of WinPCap. packet.dll depends on wanpacket.dll
>> which
>> > in turn depends on npptools.dll.
>> > npptools.dll is not present in windows 9x, and
>> even if
>> > you get it from somewhere you'll find out it
>> depends
>> > on mfc42u.dll, a unicode library.
>>
>> This is wrong. The version of packet.dll installed
>> under win9x does *not*
>> depend on wanpacket.dll (which is not even installed
>> on that OS).
>>
>> Have a nice day
>> GV
>>
>>
>> >
>> > This was taken from WinPCap FAQ:
>> >
>> > WinPcap can run on all the main Win32 operating
>> > systems: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003.
>> If
>> > you have Windows XP/2003, you need WinPcap version
>> 2.3
>> > or higher. Note: the old family of Windows
>> operating
>> > systems, i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows
>> ME,
>> > is no more supported by the WinPcap team, so if
>> you
>> > use them you are on your own.
>> >
>> > It couldn't be more ambiguous if they tried, but I
>> > think the point is WinPCap doesn't work on Windows
>> 9x
>> > anymore.
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni_at_gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Uhm...
>> >>
>> >> I just checked the dependencies of the installer
>> and
>> >> all the DLLs of
>> >> WinPcap, and I don't seem to have found any
>> >> dependency to mfc42u.dll. I'm
>> >> 100% sure that the DLLs for win9x do not depend
>> on
>> >> MFC, and the only
>> >> dependency can be the installer dynamically
>> loading
>> >> the MFC dlls (which I
>> >> seriously doubt).
>> >>
>> >> Do you have more information on this dependency?
>> >>
>> >> Have a nice day
>> >> Gianluca Varenni
>> >> WinPcap Team
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Fyodor" <fyodor_at_insecure.org>
>> >> To: "Clay Young" <bunidano_at_yahoo.com>
>> >> Cc: <nmap-dev_at_insecure.org>
>> >> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:38 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Clay
>> >> Young wrote:
>> >> >> The download page of nmap
>> >> >> (http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html)
>> states
>> >> >> Windows 95/98/ME is supported by nmap, but
>> it's
>> >> not.
>> >> >> The latest version of nmap requires WinPCap
>> 3.1,
>> >> and
>> >> >> this program needs mfc42u.dll which is a
>> unicode
>> >> module.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the report. Though I note that
>> WinPcap
>> >> claims that version
>> >> > 3.1 supports Win95/98/ME at
>> >> http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
>> >> > . Is anyone here using Nmap on 95/98/ME?
>> Maybe
>> >> MS offers updates
>> >> > which include this unicode DLL, or maybe you
>> can
>> >> use the version from
>> >> > a later version of Windows?
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Fyodor
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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