Fw: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni () gmail com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clay Young" <bunidano () yahoo com>
To: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni () gmail com>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap


> Ok, now I know what's wrong.
>
> The installer from nmap site
> (http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.11-setup.exe)
> which includes WinPCap 3.1 installs the version of
> packet.dll that depends on wanpacket.dll. But the
> WinPCap installer downloaded from WinPCap site
> (http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_3_1.exe)
> installs the one that doesn't depend on it.
> There seems to be a problem with nmap installer.
>
> --- Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Clay Young" <bunidano () yahoo com>
> > To: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni () gmail com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap
> >
> >
> > > Here's an update:
> > >
> > > nmap.exe dynamically loads packet.dll, which is
> > part
> > > of WinPCap. packet.dll depends on wanpacket.dll
> > which
> > > in turn depends on npptools.dll.
> > > npptools.dll is not present in windows 9x, and
> > even if
> > > you get it from somewhere you'll find out it
> > depends
> > > on mfc42u.dll, a unicode library.
> >
> > This is wrong. The version of packet.dll installed
> > under win9x does *not* 
> > depend on wanpacket.dll (which is not even installed
> > on that OS).
> >
> > Have a nice day
> > GV
> >
> >
> > > This was taken from WinPCap FAQ:
> > >
> > > WinPcap can run on all the main Win32 operating
> > > systems: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003.
> > If
> > > you have Windows XP/2003, you need WinPcap version
> > 2.3
> > > or higher. Note: the old family of Windows
> > operating
> > > systems, i.e. Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows
> > ME,
> > > is no more supported by the WinPcap team, so if
> > you
> > > use them you are on your own.
> > >
> > > It couldn't be more ambiguous if they tried, but I
> > > think the point is WinPCap doesn't work on Windows
> > 9x
> > > anymore.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Uhm...
> > > >
> > > > I just checked the dependencies of the installer
> > and
> > > > all the DLLs of
> > > > WinPcap, and I don't seem to have found any
> > > > dependency to mfc42u.dll. I'm
> > > > 100% sure that the DLLs for win9x do not depend
> > on
> > > > MFC, and the only
> > > > dependency can be the installer dynamically
> > loading
> > > > the MFC dlls (which I
> > > > seriously doubt).
> > > >
> > > > Do you have more information on this dependency?
> > > >
> > > > Have a nice day
> > > > Gianluca Varenni
> > > > WinPcap Team
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Fyodor" <fyodor () insecure org>
> > > > To: "Clay Young" <bunidano () yahoo com>
> > > > Cc: <nmap-dev () insecure org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:38 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Windows 9x is NOT supported by nmap
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Clay
> > > > Young wrote:
> > > > > > The download page of nmap
> > > > > > (http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html)
> > states
> > > > > > Windows 95/98/ME is supported by nmap, but
> > it's
> > > > not.
> > > > > > The latest version of nmap requires WinPCap
> > 3.1,
> > > > and
> > > > > > this program needs mfc42u.dll which is a
> > unicode
> > > > module.
> > > > > Thanks for the report.  Though I note that
> > WinPcap
> > > > claims that version
> > > > > 3.1 supports Win95/98/ME at
> > > > http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
> > > > > .  Is anyone here using Nmap on 95/98/ME? 
> > Maybe
> > > > MS offers updates
> > > > > which include this unicode DLL, or maybe you
> > can
> > > > use the version from
> > > > > a later version of Windows?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Fyodor
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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