winpcap3/PPP probs

[Andy Lutomirski <luto () stanford edu>]

I've noticed a lot of posts here about problems with winpcap 3 and 
scanning over PPP.  I'm quite surprised -- to my knowledge, regardless 
of any version of winpcap's support for PPP, nMap has never been able to 
use it -- I hardcoded pcapsend.c to expect an Ethernet connection, and I 
don't think that anyone added the necessary support to newer versions of 
nmap.  What should work is nmap's raw _socket_ support, which is, in 
principle, transport-independent.  I have no idea why winpcap 3 would 
mess this up, but I'll try to take a look in a few days.  In the mean 
time, try running nmap with --win_nopcap (or whatever the correct 
spelling is), as some user with Admin rights.  Note that XP's firewall 
must be _off_ for this to work.  Actually, since MS has added some 
sensible ARP filtering to the firewall, even full winpcap mode won't 
work quite right though the firewall, since the ARP hack nmap uses is no 
longer correct.

Andy


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