[Bug] route_dst_netlink: can't find interface "eth1" (via IRC)

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

List,

Today, a user came into the #nmap IRC channel with a problem that 
sounded familiar:

> since nmap 6.01 I have not been able to use it on several of my 
> machines, it can't find any interfaces.
> gentoo linux, current stable
> kernel 3.6.11, have had issue on both amd64 and x86
> issue persists with nmap-6.25
> on some machines, I was able to get nmap working by specifically 
> cmpiling in ipv6 support to libpcap (would have been nice it that had 
> been a requirement in the configure script)
> *anything* trying to scan gives: route_dst_netlink: can't find 
> interface "eth1"
> nmap --iflist gives: INTERFACES: NONE FOUND(!)\nROUTES: NONE FOUND(!)
I'm pretty sure that this is due to an appletalk interface (ipddp) on 
his machine, since he compiled appletalk support into the kernel. I 
think the fix would be to add another ARP_HDR_ type to 
libdnet-stripped/include/dnet/arp.h and a matching case in 
libdnet-stripped/src/addr.c, but I don't know how to come up with the 
proper value for the constant, nor do I have a test setup.

The related threads are: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/801, 
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/886

Thanks for any help from devs who know this part of Nmap better than I 
do (hint, Djalal or David!).

Dan
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