Small bug in nmap

["J.W. Hoogervorst" <J.W.Hoogervorst () uva nl>]

Hello,

Just in time for version 4.0001 :)

While investigating a problem with nmap scanning hosts on a local network,
I found the error I got ("WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned
4294967295 rather than expected 42", followed by the message the host is
down, where it was not) contained an error :)

Quick fix to scan_engine.cc (including the printing of some extra info):

@@ -2060,7 +2060,7 @@
-    error("WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned %u rather than
expected %d\n", rc, (int) sizeof(frame));
+    error("WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned %i rather than
expected %d (errno=%i)\n", rc, (int) sizeof(frame), errno);

The problem itself turned out to be the particular version of the linux
kernel I was running, giving -EINVAL. This was easily fixed by upgrading
to the latest-and-greatest.

Regards,
Jeroen Hoogervorst



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