Re: nmap 4.20 and 4.22 on OS X + VMware issue

["Kurt Grutzmacher" <grutz () jingojango net>]

There is still an issue with the vmware interfaces and bpf. By
shutting down vmware fusion you can get nmap to run. I've not had any
time to dive further into why.



On 8/20/07, DePriest, Jason R. <jrdepriest () gmail com> wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Alex Nikitin  wrote:
> > Trying to run NMap v4.20 and v4.22SOC2 on OS X On an intel mac.
> >
> > First when compiling 4.22 the compile gave me a
> >
> > Building NmapFE graphical frontend
> > cd . && aclocal
> > aclocal: configure.ac: 9: macro `AM_PATH_GTK_2_0' not found in library
> > make[1]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > make: *** [nmapfe/nmapfe] Error 2
> >
> > error, so i used --without-nmapfe option and the compile went through
> fine.
> > The problem is that I am running vmware fusion which creates 2 vmnet
> > devices. Every time i run nmap as root now, i get
> >
> > Starting Nmap 4.22SOC2 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-08-20 14:48 EDT
> > getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A possible
> cause
> > on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see
> > http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
> > QUITTING!
> >
> > Interesting part is that if i run nmap as user it will actually scan (or
> so
> > it appears)...
> >
> > that's a -vv output, so unless there is (and i know that there is) some
> sort
> > of a debugging mode i can use to troubleshoot it further for you guys, i
> > would gladly do so.
> >
> > --
> > This work as well as my thinking is licensed under a Creative Commons
> > Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
>
> See the announcements for SOC3
> (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q3/0171.html) and SOC5
> (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q3/0190.html).  Maybe you could try
> compiling one of those instead?
>
> To my knowledge, SOC5 was just to fix some Umit in Windows issues and
> I never saw a SOC4.
>
> -Jason
>
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