Re: (no subject)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:34:02PM -0400, Michael Pattrick wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM,  <pgrovesuk32 () aol com> wrote:
> > Dear Team, Can you help me to rectify the following message I get every  time
> > I try to scan.
> > The error message is: dnet: failed to open device eth9 QUITTING!
> > I am using version nmap-4.68 running on windows Vista
> > I have googled the error and browsed seclists.org to no avail
> >
> > Sincerely Paul
>
> Hey Paul,
>
> Here are a few things you could try.
> Open an elevated command prompt by right-clicking on the command prompt
> link and using "run as administrator" and run:
> net start npf
> And then try Nmap.
>
> If that doesn't work, you could try reinstalling winpcap from here:
> http://www.winpcap.org/
>
> If that doesn't work, could you tell us what the output of the
> following command is:
> nmap --iflist
>
> That would help me diagnose the problem further.

And if none of those work, please write back so we can give you a
special debugging version of Nmap to try. This may be a symptom of an
elusive problem we've trying to track down, but more often it's because
of a lack of administrator privileges.

David Fifield

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