Re: Quiet Nmap 7.25BETA1 release

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Rob,

Regarding the nsock engine, Nsock doesn't expose a way to check this
currently. I don't suppose it would be hard to add, though. A little code
in nsock/src/nsock_engines.cc and then add it to nsock.h and output it
right under the Timing report in nmap.cc.

Dan

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Rob Nicholls <robert () robnicholls co uk>
wrote:

> It looks okay so far on the Windows x64 side of things. Nmap and Npcap
> appear to work fine on Windows 8.1, Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 10 Pro. I
> also have it working on an old Windows 8.0 VM, although I did initially get
> the warning “dnet: Failed to open device lo0” when scanning 127.0.0.1 on a
> Windows 8.0 VM (running under Hyper-V) before I rebooted and reinstalled
> Nmap/Npcap, but now it’s fine (it is worth noting that Windows 8.0 hasn’t
> been supported by Microsoft in several months). If I find time I’ll try it
> on an old Server 2008 host (which should work the same as Vista) and build
> a few x86 VMs for further testing.
>
> Is there a way to tell which nsock engine is in use during a scan, now
> that Windows apparently supports poll and select? I’ve gone with whatever
> is the default on Windows when testing, but I can’t see anything obvious in
> Nmap’s output even with -d9 when I specify the --nsock-engine as poll or
> select.
>
> Rob
>
>
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces () nmap org] On Behalf Of Fyodor
> Sent: 15 July 2016 20:04
> To: Nmap Development List <dev () nmap org>
> Subject: Quiet Nmap 7.25BETA1 release
>
>
> Hi folks!  We've quietly updated the Nmap download page with links to a
> new Nmap 7.25BETA1 release:
>
> https://nmap.org/download.html
>
> This is the first release to include the new Npcap (http://npcap.org)
> Windows packet capturing library that we've been working on for 3 years!
> There are dozens of other enhancements as well.  I'm planning to send full
> release announcements on Monday, but please do report it on this dev list
> if you try 7.25BETA1 (especially the Windows builds) and have any problems!
>
> Cheers,
> Fyodor
>
>
>
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