Re: nmap on current open/solaris

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:15:05PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> When using nmap on opensolaris, there's a chance it will fail
> because it does not understand the IPNET "link layer".
>
> For example:
>
> # nmap victim
> Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2010-11-02 15:53 PDT
> FATAL: readip_pcap: bogus caplen from libpcap (134493584) on
> interface type 226
> QUITTING!
>
> For reference, there is currently code to handle the IPNET header in
> both tcpdump and wireshark.
>
> In addition, as an FYI, the IPNET "link layer" is read-only.
> Attempting to use bpf to send packets using this link layer will
> result in 100% packet loss of packets sent.

Does this patch work?

David Fifield

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