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Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:04:16 -0700
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:55:07PM -1100, Hans Nilsson wrote:
I was just trying to scan the IP 255.255.255.255 from my Windows box but Nmap doesn't allow me to do that. It says that Windows doesn't allow you to scan localhost in that way, but I don't want to scan localhost, I want to scan 255.255.255.255. Surely Windows allows you to set 255.255.255.255 as the destination IP?
Hey, can you try running with the -e option to specify the outgoing interface? Like nmap -e eth0 255.255.255.255 You can run "nmap --iflist" to see what interfaces you have. That message "Skipping scan against 255.255.255.255 because Windows does not support scanning your own machine (localhost) this way" is printed whenever the outgoing interface type is determined to be a loopback interface. You might be able to avoid it by naming the interface explicitly. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows Hans Nilsson (Oct 27)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows David Fifield (Nov 15)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows Hans Nilsson (Nov 16)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows David Fifield (Nov 18)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows Jon Kibler (Nov 19)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows Hans Nilsson (Nov 16)
- Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows David Fifield (Nov 15)