Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

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David Fifield wrote:

> I looked into this and I can reproduce it. I get the "Failed to
> determine dst MAC address" message even without -e, though. I think I
> know why: for some reason the routing table has the gateway for
> 255.255.255.255/32 set to the local IP address. This machine's IP
> address is 192.168.0.190 and its Internet gateway is 192.168.0.1.

Although I cannot test right now to verify it, I seem to recall that (at least
for Linux) packets sent to 255.255.255.255/32 usually (always?) have a
destination MAC address of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Maybe nmap should simply set the
MAC associated with 255.255.255.255/32 to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF?

Jon
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