Re: "dnet: Failed to open device" errors on AIX, as root

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:34:41PM -0500, Ben Lentz wrote:
> > Did you also try this patch without the second change? I think it's
> > wrong not to assign sndd_8022_nddname. It is probably also wrong not to
> > assign e->device, but I don't think that would actually have an effect.
> >
> > The only other thing I can think of is that maybe the payload needs to
> > be padded to 60 bytes, as reported here:
> >         http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/96
> > You could try setting the --data-length option to test if this is the
> > case. I think it is unlikely, though, as the earlier report had EMSGSIZE
> > for this error. I think it's more likely that you need to restore the
> > assignment to sndd_8022_nddname.
>
> Adding --data-length doesn't seem to make a difference.
>
> $ sudo /opt/local/nmap/bin/nmap -sT --data-length 60 10.0.17.1
>
> Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-12-10 16:33 EST
> WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
> (errno=19: No such device)
> WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
> (errno=19: No such device)
> Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn
> Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.46 seconds

--data-length doesn't seem to be having an effect here. Try applying the
very last hunk of http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/att-353/aix.patch.

David Fifield
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