Re: Nmap not working with ppp0 interface

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:00:40 -0700 (PDT) or thereabouts jamal ibraihimi
<jibraihimi () yahoo com> wrote:

> sir,
>         i  am having some problem in using nmap,  i am new user to
> nmap world, so please guide me in this regard, the error which i am
> getting is written below. i am running windows xp sp2, and i am using
> nmap 5.0 command line since it was not working so i even installed
> zenmap. i am using wireless net connection to connect to net and by
> wireless i don't mean 'wifi'  it's wireless data card. please guide
> me,   the detailed error is follow: 

Jamal,

Nmap only supports Ethernet devices and unfortunately, your wireless
data card shows up as a point-to-point protocol (ppp) device.

You should be able to use Nmap with some reduced functionality by
adding --unprivileged like so:

nmap --unprivleged -sP www.hackingmobilephones.com 

If you end up wanting to do port scans to, you might want to explicitly
add -sT too.

Brandon


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