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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:43:12PM -0500, Ben Lentz wrote:
> >     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.
>
> Sorry for the late reply. I applied the last hunk of patch
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/att-353/aix.patch
>
> --- libdnet-stripped/src/eth-ndd.c    (revision 27119)
> +++ libdnet-stripped/src/eth-ndd.c    (working copy)

I'm sorry, I lost context. Can you show us the complete diff of changes
you have applied to your source tree? If you are in an SVN working
directory, just do "svn diff > diff.patch".

David Fifield
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