Re: Scanning 255.255.255.255 from Windows

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:55:07PM -1100, Hans Nilsson wrote:
> I was just trying to scan the IP 255.255.255.255 from my Windows box but
> Nmap doesn't allow me to do that. It says that Windows doesn't allow you
> to scan localhost in that way, but I don't want to scan localhost, I
> want to scan 255.255.255.255. Surely Windows allows you to set
> 255.255.255.255 as the destination IP?

Hey, can you try running with the -e option to specify the outgoing
interface? Like

nmap -e eth0 255.255.255.255

You can run "nmap --iflist" to see what interfaces you have.

That message "Skipping scan against 255.255.255.255 because Windows does
not support scanning your own machine (localhost) this way" is printed
whenever the outgoing interface type is determined to be a loopback
interface. You might be able to avoid it by naming the interface
explicitly.

David Fifield
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