Re: error!!! (Error opening adapter)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:39:47AM +0530, sanjay panwar wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>              when i am using nmap then i am facing problem----------
>  
> Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-01-16 01:31 India Standard Time
> pcap_open_live(ppp2, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: Error opening adapter: The system cannot find the device 
> specified. (20).  Will wait 5 seconds then retry.

If you are using Windows, then this is probably the answer:

> *WINDOWS:  Nmap only supports ethernet interfaces on Windows for most operations because Microsoft disabled raw 
> sockets as of Windows XP SP2.  Depending on the reason for this error, it is possible that the --unprivileged 
> command-line argument will help.

You can't run most scan types over a PPP interface on Windows because
Windows doesn't support raw sockets. Try adding the --unprivileged to
your command to use plain sockets.

David Fifield

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