Re: Network Monitor Driver Protocol (or equivalent) for Windows 98, etc

["Andrew Lutomirski" <luto () myrealbox com>]

On 1/11/07, James McFadden <jamesdpmcfadden () hotmail com> wrote:
> Hello.
> My name is James McFadden and i am a Honours Degree student studying
> computing at the Letterkenny Institute of Technology in Ireland. I have to
> do a study on port scanning as part of my network security assignment. this
> will involve downloading port scanning software (Nmap) from the web onto my
> PC at home. the kind of computer that i have is an IBM Aptiva computer. this
> computer is an 8 year old computer that i bought from my aunt 3.5 years ago
> and runs on Windows 98.

:)

> i have downloaded both the latest stable release self-installer
> nmap-4.20-setup.exe and the latest stable command-line zip file
> nmap-4.20-win32.zip onto my PC. all i have to do now is to get one of these
> installed and running on my PC. i won't bother installing and using Cygwin

nmap doesn't need Cygwin, ever.

> on my PC. the only questions that remain are these: do i need to install
> Network Monitor Driver Protocol (or equivalent) for Windows 98 on my machine

No.  Just winpcap (I thought of supporting Network Monitor instead a
long time ago, but it seemed like too much work, especially
considering that raw sockets should have worked (they did for awhile
on Win2K SP1, but they could trigger BSODs on Win2K SP0).  Sadly MS
killed them off for all useful purposes.

> if i have to start troubleshooting? i have also downloaded INSTMSIA.EXE,
> InstMsiW.exe and WinPcap (a WinPcap that will suitable for Win98) onto my
> PC. How can i open the Event Viewer on a Win98 machine?

There isn't one, I think.  But you shouldn't need it.

> i also have two last question that needs to be answered. what is the
> difference between the program nmap-4.20-setup.exe and the programs that are
> contained in nmap-4.20-win32.zip (i haven't even installed the programs on
> my PC never mind run them)?

The former is a pretty installer; the latter is just an executable and
supporting files.

> what version of Nmapwin do i use on a Win98 PC
> and what website do i download it from?

I don't know much about nmapwin, but the command line version should
work fine on win98, and even win95 (it used to, back when I
"maintained" it).

--Andy

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