Re: dnet error

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0000, mefalk1 () comcast net wrote:
> I am pretty new to working with Nmap and I am trying to get it to run on my computer but I have run into a snag. 
>
> Included is the error report that comes back to me when trying to run Nmap, any suggestions would be most helpful 
>
>
> Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-06 12:21 Mountain Daylight Time 
>
> NSE: Loaded 30 scripts for scanning. 
>
> Initiating Ping Scan at 12:21 
>
> dnet: Failed to open device eth8 
>
> QUITTING! 
>
> my intiial that is that it might be a connection problem but I am also not sure what dnet: failed to open device eth8 
> is? 

Hi, it looks like you are running under Windows Vista. Make sure that
you run Nmap in a console with administrator privileges. (Right-click
the console icon and select "Run as Administrator" or similar.)

David Fifield

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