Re: possible nmap bug

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:09:43PM +0100, Kieran Combes wrote:
> I can't find any information about about this issue so don't know if
> it's been raised already. I've run nmap 4.75 and 4.76 under OSX 10.5.5
> and they both have intermittent problems routing scans. this problem
> occurs when i scan address on my local subnet and external ones.
> Simple scans seem to work fine but more complex ones fail.
> Golgothan ~: sudo nmap -e en0 -p- -O -sV x.x.x.x
> Password:
>
> Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-09-30 14:41 BST
> Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet8 -- skipping it.
> Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet1 -- skipping it.
> nexthost: failed to determine route to x.x.x.x
> QUITTING!
>
> Pings to the same address work fine, also i get the same result if i
> don't specify the interface to use.

Can you please send the output of

        nmap --iflist

If possible, can you try disabling VMware and seeing if the problem
still occurs?

David Fifield

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