Re: I want help from you about the nmap errors on Aix 6.0。

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:46:46AM +0800, 815837122 wrote:
> Dear author，
>  
>          I want help from you about the nmap errors on Aix 6-0.The error lists are like this，I don't know how to deal 
> with it.Sorry to bother you ,but I really need help to solve the problem.Hope for your reply.
>  
> # nmap -sU -p 161  192.168.8.182
>  
> Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-01-24 15:54 GMT+08:00
> pcap_open_live(en1, 256, 0, 200) FAILED. Reported error: BIOCSETIF: en1: File exists.  Will wait 5 seconds then retry.
> pcap_open_live(en1, 256, 0, 200) FAILED. Reported error: BIOCSETIF: en1: File exists.  Will wait 25 seconds then 
> retry.
> Call to pcap_open_live() failed three times. There are several possible reasons for this, depending on your operating 
> system:
> LINUX: If you are getting Socket type not supported, try modprobe af_packet or recompile your kernel with PACKET 
> enabled.
>  *BSD:  If you are getting device not configured, you need to recompile your kernel with Berkeley Packet Filter 
> support.  If you are getting No such file or directory, try creating the device (eg cd /dev; MAKEDEV <device>; or use 
> mknod).
> *WINDOWS:  Nmap only supports ethernet interfaces on Windows for most operations because Microsoft disabled raw 
> sockets as of Windows XP SP2.  Depending on the reason for this error, it is possible that the --unprivileged 
> command-line argument will help.
> SOLARIS:  If you are trying to scan localhost or the address of an interface and are getting '/dev/lo0: No such file 
> or directory' or 'lo0: No DLPI device found', complain to Sun.  I don't think Solaris can support advanced localhost 
> scans.  You can probably use "-Pn -sT localhost" though.

I suggest that you first try version 6.25, which you can get from
http://nmap.org/download.html#source
This version has a newer libpcap and may work for you. If not, please
respond.

David Fifield
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