Nmap Hackers: Re: nmap on NetBSD

From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_dhp.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:04:00 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried nmap on NetBSD, encouraged by your stats on your web page.
> Unfortunately, it seems to have some endiannes problem: while it worked
> out of the box on sparc (big endian), it did not work on intel (little
> endian):

Several people have written me about this problem, and in all cases the
solution has been to add:

#define FREEBSD 1

into the config.h right after you do ./configure but before you do 'make'.
This turns on special work arounds for a bug in FreeBSD which apparently
also exists in NetBSD. I'll add this information to the next version of
nmap so you shouldn't have to hack it like this.

If anyone has a NetBSD/Intel box which *does* work (-sS and -sF) with the
current nmap, please send me the version info so I don't break nmap for
your system.

Cheers,
Fyodor
Received on Dec 27 1998