Nmap Development: Re: nmap/vmware osx bug

[Garrett Reid <garrett.reid () gmail com>]

garrett$ sudo nmap -sS -p 22,80 --packet-trace scanme.insecure.org

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:53 MDT
getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A possible  
cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see  
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
QUITTING!

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garrett$ nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:54 MDT
getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (en0). A possible  
cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see  
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
QUITTING!

en0 is the interface that nmap should be using.


On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Kurt Grutzmacher wrote:

> I don't have VMWare for OSX installed but it looks like BPF/libpcap  
> doesn't
> like the vmnet8 interface. Probably not 'root' related. Try doing  
> this:
>
> $ sudo nmap -sS -p 22,80 --packet-trace scanme.insecure.org
>
> If that works then we need to figure out why nmap is going out  
> vmnet8 for
> localhost. Send the output of your --iflist:
>
> $ nmap --iflist
>
>
> On 4/29/07, Garrett Reid <garrett.reid () gmail com> wrote:
> > I'm running nmap under OSX (the system that just had VMWare installed
> > on it).
> >
> > On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
> >
> > > Are you running nmap under vmware?
> > >
> > > Or are you speaking of running it on the system that has vmware
> > > installed on
> > > it?
> > >
> > > Take care,
> > > Sina
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nmap-dev-bounces () insecure org [mailto:nmap-dev-
> > > bounces () insecure org]
> > > On Behalf Of Garrett Reid
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:19 PM
> > > To: nmap-dev () insecure org
> > > Cc: Garrett Reid
> > > Subject: nmap/vmware osx bug
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this, so
> > > apologies in
> > > advance if it isn't.
> > >
> > > For some reason, after installing VMWare Fusion Beta3 (the current
> > > beta for
> > > mac users), nmap will not run as root:
> > > >  garrett$ sudo nmap localhost
> > > > Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:06 MDT
> > > > getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A  
> > > > possible
> > > > cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see
> > > > http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/
> > > > 0014.html).
> > > > QUITTING!
> > > However, if run as a non-root user, it works fine:
> > > > garrett$ nmap localhost
> > > > Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:16 MDT
> > > > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1)
> > > I'm not sure if this is nmap using the wrong interface, or vmware
> > > breaking
> > > raw sockets or just what is going on, so I've posted this bug to  
> > > both
> > > parties. However, since this is a mailing-list, I'll hopefully be
> > > getting
> > > some feedback from here =)
> > >
> > > -Garrett
> > >
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